If we want security, let us give security; if we want life, let us give life; if we want opportunities, let us provide opportunities. The yardstick we use for others will be the yardstick which time will use for us.

Almost without being aware of it, we end up being incapable of feeling compassion at the outcry of the poor, weeping for other people's pain, and feeling a need to help them, as though all this were someone else's responsibility and not our own.

Humanity needs justice, peace and love and we can have this only by returning with our hearts towards God who is the source of all this.

Around us there is the presence of evil. The devil is at work. But in a loud voice I say: GOD IS STRONGER.

I thank all missionaries, men and women who quietly work hard for the Lord and their brothers and sisters.

One cannot proclaim the Gospel of Jesus without the tangible witness of one’s life. Those who listen to us and observe us must be able to see in our actions what they hear from our lips, and so give glory to God!

When one lives attached to money, pride or power, it is impossible to be truly happy.