“Everything a baptized person does every day should be directly or indirectly related to the Corporal and Spiritual Works of Mercy.”

“Maybe I was praying for him then, in my own way. Does God have a set way of prayer, a way that He expects each of us to follow? I doubt it. I believe some people-- lots of people-- pray through the witness of their lives, through the work they do, the friendships they have, the love they offer people and receive from people. Since when are words the only acceptable form of prayer?”

“I really only love God as much as I love the person I love the least.”

“Writing is hard work. But if you want to become a writer you will become one. Nothing will stop you.”

“Love and ever more loveis the only solution to every problem that comes up.”

“The greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the heart, a revolution which has to start with each one of us?”

“It is we ourselves that we have to think about, no one else. That is the way the saints worked. They paid attention to what they were doing, and if others were attracted to them by their enterprise, why, well and good. But they looked to themselves first of all.”