Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.

I never look at the masses as my responsibility. I look at the individual. I can love only one person at a time. I can feed only one person at a time. Just one, one, one.

Peace starts with a smile

Prayer feeds the soul - as blood is to the body, prayer is to the soul - and it brings you closer to God.

God speaks in the silence of the heart.

We are called to be contemplatives. ..by seeking the face of God in everything, everyone, everywhere, all the time.

How can I act in an impersonal manner? When a man dies in the street for want of food, how can I ignore him? When I find a starving or naked man in the street, I cannot walk past him. I think no human being can do that.