That's what our Rules engage us to do, to help poor persons, our lords and masters.

Charity is the cement which binds Communities to God and persons to one another . . .

If God is the center of your life, no words are necessary. Your mere presence will touch hearts.

We should strive to keep our hearts open to the sufferings and wretchedness of other people, and pray continually that God may grant us that spirit of compassion which is truly the spirit of God.

We should spend as much time in thanking God for his benefits as we do in asking him for them.

The most powerful weapon to conquer the devil is humility. For, as he does not know at all how to employ it, neither does he know how to defend himself from it.

We must love our neighbor as being made in the image of God and as an object of His love.

Make it a practice to judge persons and things in the most favorable light at all times and under all circumstances.

Let us do our duty well; let us go straight to God; let us work to become very humble, very patient, very mortified, and very charitable.

God allows us to give rise to the practice of two beautiful virtues: perseverance, which leads us to attain the goal, and constancy, which helps us to overcome difficulties.

Let us allow God to act; He brings things to completion when we least expect it.

Ah, heavens and earth, friend, if you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor that you could to-day.

My name is one best whispered in terror in a dark corner.

Oh how I had underestimated tender kisses.

No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic.

Friends are made for caring and sharing. Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

Are you winning the battle against materialism?

An action film can have too much action; picture an equaliser on a stereo, with all the knobs pegged at 10. It becomes a cacophony and is, ultimately, quite boring.

It was nice to hear the voices of little children at play, provided you took care to be far enough away not to hear what they were actually saying.

He who is as faithful to his principles as he is to himself is the true partisan.

I am the product of the masses of my country and the product of my enemy.