Words lead to deeds, they prepare the soul, make it ready, and move it to tenderness.

I have come to realize more and more that the greatest disease and the greatest suffering is to be unwanted, unloved, uncared for, to be shunned by everybody, to be just nobody.

The very fact that God has placed a certain soul in our way is a sign that God wants us to do something for him or her. It is not chance; it has been planned by God. We are bound by conscience to help him or her.

You can find Calcutta all over the world, if you have the eyes to see.

Maybe if I didn't pick up that one person, I wouldn't have picked up forty-two thousand.

A beautiful death is for people who have lived like animals to die like angels.

You are greater than you know.