I don't claim anything of the work. It is his work. I am like a little pencil in his hand. That is all. He does the thinking. He does the writing. The pencil has nothing to do with it.

Some people come in our life as blessings. Some come in your life as lessons.

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.

People are hungry for God. What [a] terrible meeting [it] would be with our neighbour if we give them only ourselves.

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.

The poverty of the West is far more difficult to solve than the poverty of India.

Prayer is not asking. Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God, at His disposition, and listening to His voice in the depth of our hearts.