We must have a real living determination to reach holiness. ''I will be a saint'' means I will despoil myself of all that is not God; I will strip my heart of all created things; I will live in poverty and detachment; I will renounce my will, my inclinations, my whims and fancies, and make make myself a willing slave to the will of God.

She knows how to suffer and at the same time how to laugh.

Life is not worth living unless it is lived for others.

God does not create poverty; we do, because we do not share.

One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.

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.

If I'd never have picked up the first person, I'd never have picked up the 42,000 in Calcutta.