When I pick up a person from the street, hungry, I give him a plate of rice, a piece of bread. But a person who is shut out, who feels unwanted, unloved, terrified, the person who has been thrown out of society - that spiritual poverty is much harder to overcome. And abortion, which often follows from contraception, brings a people to be spiritually poor, and that is the worst poverty and the most difficult to overcome.

Abortion kills twice. It kills the body of the baby and it kills the conscience of the mother. Abortion is profoundly anti-women. Three quarters of its victims are women: Half the babies and all the mothers.

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

The true way and the sure way to friendship is through humility-being open to each other, accepting each other just as we are, knowing each other.

You can find Calcutta anywhere in the world. You only need two eyes to see. Everywhere in the world there are people that are not loved, people that are not wanted nor desired, people that no one will help, people that are pushed away or forgotten. And this is the greatest poverty.

Let us preach you, Dear Jesus, without preaching.... not by words but by our example.

Be the living expression of God's kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.