If I'd never have picked up the first person, I'd never have picked up the 42,000 in Calcutta.

Many people are concerned with children of India, with the children of Africa where quite a few die of hunger, and so on. Many people are also concerned about the violence in this great country of the United States. These concerns are very good. But often these same people are not concerned with the millions being killed by the deliberate decision of their own mothers. And this is the greatest destroyer of peace today- abortion which brings people to such blindness.

We must make our homes centers of compassion and forgive endlessly.

Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.

There's nothing more calming in difficult moments that knowing there's some one fighting with you.

It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us.

The poor give us much more than we give them. They're such strong people, living day to day with no food. And they never curse, never complain. We don't have to give them pity or sympathy. We have so much to learn from them.