Purity is the fruit of prayer.

We pick up people dying full of worms from the street. We have picked up more than 40,000 of them. If I lift up such a person, clean him, love him and serve him, is it conversion? He has been there like an animal in the street but I am giving him love and he dies peacefully. That peace comes from his heart. That's between him and God.

Each of us is merely a small instrument; all of us, after accomplishing our mission, will disappear.

If I ever become a Saint - I will surely be one of "darkness." I will continually be absent from heaven - to light the light of those in darkness on earth.

I still think that the greatest suffering is being lonely, feeling unloved, just having no one... That is the worst disease that any human being can ever experience.

My secret is simple -- I pray.

I want you to find the poor here, right in your own home first. And begin love there. Be that good news to your own people.