Thoughtfulness is the beginning of great sanctity. If you learn this art of being thoughtful, you will become more and more Christ-like, for his heart was meek and he always thought of others. Our vocation, to be beautiful, must be full of thought for others.

[My mother tongue is] Albanian. But, I am equally fluent in Bengali (language of Calcutta) and English.

The more you have, the more you are occupied, the less you give. But the less you have the more free you are. Poverty for us is a freedom. It is not mortification, a penance. It is joyful freedom. There is no television here, no this, no that. But we are perfectly happy.

Living intensely each present day means letting Christ dwell within you. His words are so clear: Today I would like to enter your home.

Serve God joyfully. Let there be no sadness in your life: the only true sorrow is sin.

In response to the question, 'How can we help to promote world peace?' Mother Theresa replied, 'Go home and love your children.

God has identified himself with the hungry, the sick, the naked, the homeless; hunger not only for bread, but for love, for care, to be somebody to someone; nakedness, not for clothing only, but nakedness of that compassion that very few people give to the unknown; homelessness, not only just for a shelter made from stone but for that homelessness that comes from having no one to call your own.