"My greatest victory has been to be able to live with myself, to accept my shortcomings. I'm a long way from the human being I'd liked to be, but I've decided I'm not so bad after all."

"Persevere. Nothing worthwhile is easy."

"I like people to be unhappy because I like them to have souls."

"The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you."

"God knows our situation; He will not judge us as if we had no difficulties to overcome. What matters is the sincerity and perseverance of our will to overcome them."

"You cannot solve a problem until you acknowledge that you have one and accept responsibility for solving it."