Sometimes a good feeling from inside is worth much more than a beautician.

Whatever we get from the government or other people - even one rupee we get, we give it to the poor. Completely free service.

Recovering in a Calcutta, India hospital. I think I'm more difficult than critical.

I heard the call to give up all and follow Christ into the slums to serve Him among the poorest of the poor. It was an order.

People have forgotten what the human touch is, what it is to smile, for somebody to smile at them, somebody to recognize them, somebody to wish them well. The terrible thing is to be unwanted.

Our life of contemplation shall retain the following characteristics: —missionary: by going out physically or in spirit in search of souls all over the universe. —contemplative: by gathering the whole universe at the very center of our hearts where the Lord of the universe abides, and allowing the pure water of divine grace to flow plentifully and unceasingly from the source itself, on the whole of his creation. —universal: by praying and contemplating with all and for all, especially with and for the spiritually poorest of the poor.

We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.