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

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.

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.

The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.

I prefer you to make mistakes in kindness than work miracles in unkindness.

A joyful heart is the normal result of a heart burning with love. She gives most who gives with joy.

In the home begins the disruption of the peace of the world.

The trees, the flowers, the plants grow in silence. The stars, the sun, the moon move in silence. Silence gives us a new perspective.

Spread the love of God through your life but only use words when necessary.

Love is a fruit in season at all times and within reach of every hand.

Perhaps the story you finish is never the one you begin.

An autobiography is only ‘a sort of life’ – it may contain less errors of fact than a biography, but it is of necessity even more selective: it begins later and it ends prematurely.

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.