There is a tremendous strength that is growing in the world through sharing together, praying together, suffering together, and working together.

The more you have, the more you are occupied, the less you give. But the less you have the more free you are. Poverty for us is a freedom. It is not mortification, a penance. It is joyful freedom. There is no television here, no this, no that. But we are perfectly happy.

If everyone could see the image of God in his neighbor, do you think we should still need tanks and generals?

It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us.

Death is nothing else but going home to God, the bond of love will be unbroken for all eternity.

We must not be surprised when we hear of murders, killings, of wars, or of hatred...If a mother can kill her own child, what is left but for us to kill each other?

I think that before people were speaking much about the poor, but now more and more people are speaking to the poor. That is the great difference.