Doctors can heal the body, but it is music that uplifts the spirit.

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.

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.

We cannot give what we have not got

How can there be too many children? That is like saying there are too many flowers

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop

I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next door neighbor?

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

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

“There are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely-or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands.” 

“Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them! They seemed to be able to give a plastic form to formless things, and to have a music of their own as sweet as that of viol or of lute. Mere words! Was there anything so real as words?” 

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.

Intellectual tasting of life will not supersede muscular activity.

“Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.” 

“Some things are more precious because they don't last long.” 

“To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.” 

“Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.” 

“We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.” 

“Every woman is a rebel.”