“Peace begins with a smile.”

One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.

What you spend years creating, others could destroy overnight. Create anyway.

Give, but give until it hurts.

Intense love does not measure it just gives.

If a mother can kill her own child – what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me – there is nothing between.

Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired.

Joy is a net of love in which you can catch souls.

The person who gives with a smile is the best giver because God loves a cheerful giver.

If you are honest and sincere people may deceive you. Be honest and sincere anyway.

Go out into the world today and love the people you meet. Let your presence light new light in the hearts of people.

Prayer in action is love, love in action is service.

Love begins by taking care of the closest ones – the ones at home.

I still think that the greatest suffering is being lonely, feeling unloved, just having no one. That is the worst disease that any human being can ever experience.

Prayer is not asking. Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God, at His disposition, and listening to His voice in the depth of our hearts.

People are unrealistic, illogical, and self-centered. Love them anyway.

Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.

In Germany, a new sect shall be born which shall renew ancient pagan times.

I always write the end of everything first. I always write the last chapters of my books before I write the beginning. Then I go back to the beginning. I mean, it’s always nice to know where you’re going is my theory.

It is simply wrong to begin with a theme, symbol or other abstract unifying agent, and then try to force characters and events to conform to it.

Argentine political life is like the life of an ant community or an African forest tribe: full of events, full of crisis and deaths, but life is always cyclical, and the year ends as it begins.

It’s very attractive to people to be a victim. Instead of having to think out the whole situation, about history and your group and what you are doing. If you begin from the point of view of being a victim, you’ve got it half-made. I mean intellectually.

My mother, was perfectly horrified when I began shooting and tried to keep me in school, but I would run away and go quail shooting in the woods or trim my dresses with wreaths of wildflowers.

The third big war will begin when the big city is burning.

But what if I fail of my purpose here? It is but to keep the nerves at strain, to dry one’s eyes and laugh at a fall, and baffled, get up and begin again.