Consider that the devil doesn't sleep, but seeks our ruin in a thousand ways.

You will accomplish more by kind words and a courteous manner than by anger or sharp rebuke, which should never be used except in necessity.

Reflect that in reality you have a greater need to serve [the poor] than they have of your service.

Beware of trying to accomplish anything by force.

Strive to be faithful to that which God has called you.

We must give alms. Charity wins souls and draws them to virtue.

Disorder in society is the result of disorder in the family.

Remember that the Devil doesn't sleep but seeks our ruin in a thousand different ways

You will accomplish more by kind words and a courteous manner than by anger or sharp rebuke which should never be used except in necessity.

If we don’t change direction soon, we’ll end up where we’re going.

We might be on the same page, but I wasn't happy about reading it.

I am no I. I am now part of a we.

It is not a simple life to be a single cell, although I have no right to say so, having been a single cell so long ago myself that I have no memory at all of that stage of my life.

Certainty is no guarantor of correctness.

To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you’re not, pretend you are.

[When asked at age 79 why her Paris apartment was located up many flights of stairs at the top of the building:] It's the only way I can still make the hearts of men beat faster.

Whatever you have read I have said is almost certainly untrue, except if it is funny, in which case I definitely said it.

He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.