If you want to change the world, go home and love your family.

If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.

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?

It is much easier to conquer a country than to conquer ourselves.

Cheerfulness is a sign of a generous and mortified person who forgetting all things, even herself, tries to please her God in all she does for souls. Cheerfulness is often a cloak which hides a life of sacrifice and a continual union with God.

Do we know our poor people? Do we know the poor in our house, in our family? Perhaps they are not hungry for a piece of bread. Perhaps our children, husband, wife, are not hungry, or naked, or dispossessed, but are you sure there is no one there who feels unwanted, deprived of affection?

We realize that what we are accomplishing is a drop in the ocean. But if this drop were not in the ocean, it would be missed.