When a poor person dies of hunger it has not happened because God did not take care of him or her. It has happened because neither you nor I wanted to give that person what he or she needed.

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.

Honesty and transparency make you vulnerable. Be honest and transparent anyway.

Saints are only sinners who keep trying.

Human rights are not a privilege conferred by government. They are every human being's entitlement by virtue of his humanity.

Do you want to do something beautiful for God? There is a person who needs you. This is your chance.

People who love each other fully and truly are the happiest people in the world. They may have little, they may have nothing, but they are happy people. Everything depends on how we love one another.

There is a light in this world, a healing spirit more powerful than any darkness we may encounter.

When you know how much God is in love with you then you can only live your life radiating that love.

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

Let us use love and compassion. Peace begins with a smile. Smile five times a day at someone you don't really want to smile at at all. Do it for peace.

In the poorest of the poor we see Jesus in distressed guise.

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.

If each of us would only sweep our own doorstep, the whole World would be clean.

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.

What we sometimes consider a stumbling block is rather a rock we can step on.

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

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?

If you have a sick or lonely person at home, be there. Maybe just to hold a hand, maybe just to give a smile, that is the greatest, the most beautiful work.