What will we answer to Him about that child, that old father and mother, because they are His creation, they are children of God.

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

We must have a real living determination to reach holiness. ''I will be a saint'' means I will despoil myself of all that is not God; I will strip my heart of all created things; I will live in poverty and detachment; I will renounce my will, my inclinations, my whims and fancies, and make make myself a willing slave to the will of God.

I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together we can do great things.

Mary, my dearest Mother, give me your heart so beautiful, so pure, so immaculate, your heart so full of love and humility, that I may be able to receive Jesus in the Bread of Life, love Him as you loved Hitn and serve Him in the distressing disguise of the poorest of the poor.

Our vocation, to be beautiful, must be full of thought for others.

If each of us would only sweep our own doorstep, the whole World would be clean.