But I feel that the greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion, because it is a war against the child, a direct killing of the innocent child, murder by the mother herself.

I can do only one thing, like a little dog follow closely the Master's footsteps. Pray that I be a cheerful dog.

Life is a dream, realise it.

If you are discouraged it is a sign of pride, because it shows you trust in your own powers.

You can and you must expect suffering.

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

She lived almost fifty years of her life completely dedicated to the care of the poor and the marginalized. Astonishingly, for those nearly fifty years she identified completely with the poor she served by her own experience of being seemingly unwanted and unloved by God. In a mystical way — through this painful interior "darkness" — she tasted their greatest poverty of being "unwanted, unloved, and uncared for."