“Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time and always start with the person nearest you.”

“Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.”

“The way you help heal the world is you start with your own family.”

“As soon as we take the enfleshment of God, the incarnation which, for Christians, is represented by the person of Jesus Christ, then we start taking things seriously.”

“Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.”

“Joy must be one of the pivots of our life. It is the token of a generous personality. Sometimes it is also a mantle that clothes a life of sacrifice and self-giving. A person who has this gift often reaches high summits. He or she is like sun in a community.”

“When a poor person dies of hunger it has not happened because God did not take care of him or her. It has happened because neither you nor I wanted to give that person what he or she needed.”