You have to do that here in your country. You must come to know the poor. Maybe our people here have material things, everything, but I think that if we all look into our own homes, how difficult we find it sometimes to smile at each other, and that the smile is the beginning of love.

I think that a person who is attached to riches, who lives with the worry of riches, is actually very poor. If this person puts his money at the service of others, then he is rich, very rich.

We have no salaries. When one says he is from a good Catholic family and says he wants to help us, why should we refuse his offer?

O God, how easily I make them happy! Give me strength to be always the light of their lives and so lead them to You!

People are generally irrational, unreasonable and selfish. They deserve to be loved, anyway.

If we were humble, nothing would change us-neither praise nor discouragement. If someone were to criticize us, we would not feel discouraged. If someone would praise us, we also would not feel proud.

Charity isn't about pity, it is about love.