“Worship is an act of love that changes our lives.”

Trust in God the Creator, in the Holy Spirit who moves everything towards the good.

The Lord is the first to trust in you, and He also invites you to trust in yourselves.

The memory of the Saints leads us to raise our eyes to Heaven: not to forget the realities of the earth, but to face them with more courage and hope.

The revolution of tenderness begins in the heart of the family.

Love is more than a mere feeling. To love means to do good.

If we lose our memory, we destroy our future.

Families are a kind of leaven that helps to make the world more humane and more fraternal, where no one feels rejected or abandoned.

We multiply the joy God gives us by sharing it.

Violence never brings peace. War leads to war, violence leads to violence.

We were not created for death, but for life in abundance: eternal life.

Each one of us has infinite value for God: we may be small under heaven and powerless when the earth trembles, but for God we are more precious than anything.

If we learn to read everything in the light of the Holy Spirit, we realize that everything is grace.

God created the world with a great variety of flowers of all colours.

Each one of us is a love story with God.

Prayer gives us nobility. I t is capable of securing our relationship with God who is the true Companion on the journey of every man and woman.

Life is not the time for possessing but for loving.

Woman is a delightful instrument of pleasure, but it is necessary to know its trembling strings, to study the position of them, the timid keyboard, the fingering so changeful and capricious which befits it.

Has the world ever been changed by anything save the thought and its magic vehicle the Word?

[On being indecisive and changeable:] On my gravestone I want inscribed: ‘On the other hand, maybe I should have lived.

We can master change not though force or fear, but only though the free work of an understanding mind, though an openness to new knowledge and fresh outlooks, which can only strengthen the most fragile and most powerful of human gifts: the gift of reason.

In science the important thing is to modify and change one’s ideas as science advances.

My life was an unending, unchanging midnight. It must, by necessity, always be midnight for me. So how was it possible that the sun was rising now, in the middle of my midnight?

Yes, I tried to change the classical style in a way that people who don’t understand it can enjoy.

I appreciate the change associated with people’s growth, but I don’t like the changes in our lives. I came to Mumbai in 1945, so imagine my acceptance of the massive changes around. I have witnessed every kind of revolution.