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.

No matter how tired you are, no matter how physically exhausting this work may be, it's beautiful to bring a smile into someone's life, to care for someone in need. What greater joy can there be?

To be able to proclaim the Good News to the poor we must know what is poverty.

Silence gives us a new outlook on everything. We need silence to be able to touch souls. The essential thing is not what we say but what God says to us and through us.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money.

I think the world today is upside down, and is suffering so much, because there is so very little love in the homes and in family life.

I have said often, and I am sure of it, that the greatest destroyer of peace in the world today is abortion. If a mother can kill her own child, what is there to stop you and me from killing each other? The only one who has the right to take life is the The One who has created it.