If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal.

The first duty of love is to listen.

I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.

There are four questions of value in life... What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for, and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.

We are not the same persons this year as last nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, 'I love you.'