If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you; Be honest and frank anyway.

Be kind and merciful. Let no one ever come to you without coming away better and happier. Be the living expression of God’s kindness

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

Do not worry about why problems exist in the world – just respond to people’s needs

Life’s a song, sing it.

It is only when you realize your nothingness, your emptiness, that God can fill you with Himself

We are not called to be successful, but faithful.

Although she be but little, she is fierce

The first step to becoming is to will it.

If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are

I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together we can do great things

What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight; build it anyway

Together we can do great things.

The more you have, the more you are occupied, the less you give. But the less you have the more free you are. Poverty for us is a freedom. It is not mortification, a penance. It is joyful freedom. There is no television here, no this, no that. But we are perfectly happy

We the willing, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, with so little, for so long, we are now qualified to do anything, with nothing.

Not handouts, but rather hands held

The problem with the world is that we draw the circle of our family too small

You will never truly realize God is all you need until He becomes all you have.

We must never be afraid to be a sign of contradiction for the world.

I know I am touching the living body of Christ in the broken bodies of the hungry and the suffering.

Am I ever angry or frustrated? I only feel angry sometimes when I see waste, when things that we waste are what people need, things that would save them from dying. Frustrated? No, never.

Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough; give the world the best you’ve got anyway

We interfere with God’s plans when we push in someone or something else not suitable for us. Be strict with yourself, and then be very strict with what you are receiving from the outside.

We need to realize that poverty doesn’t only consist of being hungry for bread, but rather it is a tremendous hunger for human dignity. We need to love and to be someone for someone else