"The poor are very great people. They can teach us so many beautiful things."

"God intended us to be poor. That is why he gave us the poor."

"The fruit of silence is prayer; the fruit of prayer is faith; the fruit of faith is love; the fruit of love is service; the fruit of service is peace."

"There is a tremendous amount of suffering in the world. And we must do all we can to alleviate it, but we must also accept that it is part of life."

"I feel that the greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion, because it is a direct war, a direct killing – direct murder by the mother herself."