Serve God joyfully. Let there be no sadness in your life: the only true sorrow is sin.

Let us be very sincere in our dealings with each other and have the courage to accept each other as we are.

Peace starts with a smile

We are not social workers. We are contemplatives in the heart of the world.

In order for us to be able to love, we need to have faith, because faith is love in action and love in action is service. In order for us to be able to love, we have to see and touch. Faith in action through prayer, faith in action through service: each is the same thing, the same love, the same compassion.

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

Of all the diseases I have known, loneliness is the worst.