The biggest disease today is not leprosy or cancer or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling or being unwanted, uncared for, deserted by everybody. The greatest evil is the lack of love and charity, the terrible indifference towards one's neighbor who lives at the roadside, the victim of exploitation, corruption, poverty, and disease.

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - the rest will be given.

Poverty was not created by God. It is we who have caused it, you and I through our egotism.

Prayer is the breath of life to our soul; holiness is impossible without it

It was easier to deal with poverty and death in India that the lack of spirituality in America.

I remember I picked up a person from the street who was nearly eaten up with maggots, and he said, I have lived like an animal, but I am going to die like an angel, loved and cared for.

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