There's something about compassion that causes society to say, 'We're going to take this person seriously.' Take Mother Teresa. She was confrontational on abortion, but she wasn't rejected by society.

Nobody can ever make enough money for as many poor relatives as I've got. Somebody's got a sick kid, or somebody needs an operation, somebody ain't got this, somebody ain't got that. Or to give the kids all a car when they graduate.

Anything you do to and for another person, you do it to and for yourself.

Together with the Works of Mercy, feeding, clothing and sheltering our brothers, we must indoctrinate.

May I never get too busy in my own affairs that I fail to respond to the needs of others with kindness and compassion.

Everything that happens to the poor, the meek, the desolate, the mourners, the despised, happens to Christ.

What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?

Do not waste time bothering whether you "love" your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him. If you injure someone you dislike, you will find yourself disliking him more. If you do him a good turn, you will find yourself disliking him less.

The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbour.

To improve your memory, lend people money.

Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.