What I want to bring out is how a pebble cast into a pond causes ripples that spread in all directions. And each one of our thoughts, words and deeds is like that.

Thank God that He has permitted us to live among the present problems. It is no longer permitted to anyone to be mediocre.

One of the disconcerting facts about the spiritual life is that God takes you at your word.

Be close enough to people so that you are indifferent to the material. And also have faith.

If you have two coats, one of them belongs to the poor.

I cannot worry much about your sins and miseries when I have so many of my own. I can only love you all, poor fellow travellers, fellow sufferers. I do not want to add one least straw to the burden you already carry.

No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There's too much work to do.