Let nothing perturb you, nothing frighten you. All things pass. God does not change. Patience achieves everything.

People are hungry for something more beautiful, for something greater than people round about can give. There is a great hunger for God in the world today. Everywhere there is much suffering, but there is also great hunger for God and love for each other.

Thank God we don't serve God with our feelings, otherwise I don't know where I would be. - Pray for me.

Today somebody is suffering, today somebody is in the street, today somebody is hungry. ... We have only today to make Jesus known, loved, served, fed, clothed, sheltered. Do not wait for tomorrow. Tomorrow we will not have them if we do not feed them today.

These concerns (for orphan children in India and elsewhere in the world) are very good, but often these same people are not concerned with the millions that are killed by the deliberate decision of their own mothers.

Of all the diseases I have known, loneliness is the worst.

We must never be afraid to be a sign of contradiction for the world.