The poverty of the West is far more difficult to solve than the poverty of India.

Our poverty is freedom. This is our poverty - the giving up our freedom to dispose of things, to choose, to possess

The work we do is only our love for Jesus in action...If we pray the work...if we do it to Jesus, if we do it for Jesus, if we do it with Jesus...that's what makes us content.

Smile at each other. Smile at your wife, smile at your husband, smile at your children, smile at each other- it doesn't matter who it is- and that will help to grow up in greater love for each other.

What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more. If you can't feed a hundred people, then just feed one.

In the poor we meet Jesus in his most distressing disguises.

Only humility will lead us to unity, and unity will lead to peace.