"Joy is prayer; joy is strength: joy is love; joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls."
"Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them."
"Peace begins with a smile."
"A smile is the beginning of peace."
"The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread."
"I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love."
"Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love."
