Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home.

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.

The greatest good is what we do for others.

In the end, dear friend, it is always between us and God, not between us and them.

Intense love does not measure, it just gives.

If your Eyes are Positive, You will Love the World. But if Your Tongue is Positive, The World will Love you.

Abortion kills twice. It kills the body of the baby and it kills the conscience of the mother. Abortion is profoundly anti-women. Three quarters of its victims are women: Half the babies and all the mothers.

We must make our homes centers of compassion and forgive endlessly.

Give your hands to serve and your hearts to love.

God speaks in the silence of the heart, and we listen. And then we speak to God from the fullness of our heart, and God listens. And this listening and this speaking is what prayer is meant to be.

Love to be real, it must cost—it must hurt—it must empty us of self.

Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.

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

People are generally irrational, unreasonable and selfish. They deserve to be loved, anyway.

Prayer is not asking. Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God, at His disposition, and listening to His voice in the depth of our hearts.

When Mother Teresa received the Nobel Prize, she was asked, "What can we do to promote world peace?" She answered "Go home and love your family.