Let us use love and compassion. Peace begins with a smile. Smile five times a day at someone you don't really want to smile at at all. Do it for peace.

Give love to your children, to a wife or husband, to a next-door neighbour.

Before you speak, it is necessary for you to listen, for God speaks in the silence of the heart.

If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you; Be honest and frank anyway.

The poor are our brothers and sisters ... people in the world who need love, who need care, who have to be wanted.

If a Hindu wants to find the way to God, he has the right to go to any priest, nun or any other person.

The mass is the spiritual food that sustains me, without which I could not get through one single day or hour in my life; in the mass we have Jesus in the appearance of bread. While in the slums we see Christ and touch him in the broken bodies, in the abandoned children.