"I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love."

"We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop."

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

"I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds yet I willingly cure him for the love of God."

"The hope of the nation which throughout the nineteenth century had not for a moment reconciled itself with the loss of independence, and fighting for its own freedom, fought at the same time for the freedom of other nations."

"Like everyone else who makes the mistake of getting older, I begin each day with coffee and obituaries."

"A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself."

"To leave a mark on the world, remember that every failure is just a stepping stone to greatness."