The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.

To students: I pray that all those young people who have graduated, do not carry just a piece of paper with them but that they carry with them love, peace and joy. That they become the sunshine of God's love to our people, the hope of eternal happiness and the burning flame of love wherever they go. That they become carriers of God's love. That they be able to give what they have received. For they have received not to keep, but to share.

Be the living expression of God's kindness; kindness in your eyes, kindness in your face, kindness in your smile, kindness in your warm greetings. We are all but His instruments who do our little bit and pass by. I believe that the way in which an act of kindness is done is as important as the action itself.

Keep the corners of your mouth turned up. Speak in a low, persuasive tone. Listen; be teachable. Laugh at good stories and learn to tell them...For as long as you are green, you can grow.

Be kind and merciful. Let no one ever come to you without coming away better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness.

If you ask children in the west where's God, they'd point to the sky. If you ask children in India, they point at themselves.

People are generally irrational, unreasonable and selfish. They deserve to be loved, anyway.