To fear is to expect punishment. To love is to know we are immersed not in darkness, but in light.

The success of love is in the loving - it is not in the result of loving.

Nobody can change your religion unless you want to and God gives you the grace. It's between you and God alone. Nobody can force you.

The fruit of love is service, which is compassion in action.

How many times we have picked up in the streets human beings who had been living like animals and were longing to die like angels!

Our poor people are great people, a very lovable people, They don't need our pity and sympathy. They need our understanding love and they need our respect. We need to tell the poor that they are somebody to us that they, too, have been created, by the same loving hand of God, to love and be loved.

People ask me what advice I have for a married couple struggling in their relationship. I always answer: pray and forgive. And to young people from violent homes, I say: pray and forgive. And again, even to the single mother with no family support: pray and forgive.