The openness of our hearts and minds can be measured by how wide we draw the circle of what we call family.

Joy is a sign of generosity. When you are full of joy, you move faster and you want to go about doing good to everyone.

I repeat that the poor, the sufferers from leprosy, the rejected, the alcoholics, whom we serve, are beautiful people. Many of them have wonderful personalities. The experience which we have by serving them, we must pass on to people who have not had that wonderful experience.

A Mother is the heart of the home

I see somebody dying, I pick him up.

We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.

Peace and war begin at home. If we truly want peace in the world, let us begin by loving one another in our own families. If we want to spread joy, we need for every family to have joy.