The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.

If a Hindu wants to find the way to God, he has the right to go to any priest, nun or any other person.

And so let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love, and once we begin to love each other naturally we want to do something.

Prayer makes your heart bigger, until it is capable of containing the gift of God himself. Prayer begets faith, faith begets love, and love begets service on behalf of the poor.

Prayer to be fruitful must come from the heart and must be able to touch the heart of God.

Loneliness and the feeling that you're no use to anyone - the worst kind of poverty.

I once picked up a woman from a garbage dump and she was burning with fever; she was in her last days and her only lament was: My son did this to me. I begged her: You must forgive your son. In a moment of madness, when he was not himself, he did a thing he regrets. Be a mother to him, forgive him. It took me a long time to make her say: I forgive my son. Just before she died in my arms, she was able to say that with a real forgiveness. She was not concerned that she was dying. The breaking of the heart was that her son did not want her. This is something you and I can understand.