Anybody who helps the poor is delighted. So naturally, they (critics) are not very happy with us.

My secret is a very simple one: I pray. To pray to Christ is to love him.

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

Every human being in that case resembles Christ in his loneliness; and that is the hardest part, that's real hunger.

The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.

If a Hindu wants to find the way to God, he has the right to go to any priest, nun or any other person.

When Mother Teresa received the Nobel Prize, she was asked, "What can we do to promote world peace?" She answered "Go home and love your family.