Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the action that we do.

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.

Every day I see Jesus Christ in all his distressing disguises.

Be happy in the moment, that's enough. Each moment is all we need, not more.

I think it is very beautiful for the poor to accept their lot, to share it with the passion of Christ. I think the world is being much helped by the suffering of the poor people.

Our progress in holiness depends on God and ourselves - on God's grace and on our will to be holy.

February 1997 - National Prayer Breakfast in Washington attended by the President and the First Lady. "What is taking place in America," she said, "is a war against the child. And if we accept that the mother can kill her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another."