“Don't canonize me too soon. I'm perfectly capable of fathering a child.”

“Every day He humbles Himself just as He did when from from His heavenly throne into the Virgin's womb; every day He comes to us and lets us see Him in lowliness, when He descends from the bosom of the Father into the hands of the priest at the altar.”

“Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where these is hatred, let me sow love.”

“I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, He can work through anyone.”

“No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no enemy except yourselves.”

“Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.”

“I have sinned against my brother the ass.”