A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.

Out of one hundred thousand sinners who continue in sin until death, scarcely one will be saved.

The fact is that my native land is a prey to barbarism, that in it men's only God is their belly, that they live only for the present, and that the richer a man is the holier he is held to be.

My speech is too fast; my oration confused; love knows no order.

The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.

Virginity can be lost by a thought.

Martyrdom does not consist only in dying for one's faith. Martyrdom also consists in serving God with love and purity of heart every day of one's life