I choose the poverty of our poor people. But I am grateful to receive it (the Nobel) in the name of the hungry, the naked, the homeless, of the crippled, of the blind, of the lepers, of all those people who feel unwanted, unloved, uncared for throughout society, people that have become a burden to the society and are shunned by everyone.

God speaks in the silence of the heart. Listening is the beginning of prayer.

There are two victims in every abortion: a dead baby and a dead conscience.

The world today is hungry Not only for bread But hungry for love; Hungry to be wanted, Hungry to be loved.

What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight; build it anyway.

I have come to realize more and more that the greatest disease and the greatest suffering is to be unwanted, unloved, uncared for, to be shunned by everybody, to be just nobody.

I don't do great things. I do small things with great love.