If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives: Be kind anyway. If you are successful you will win some false friends and true enemies: Succeed anyway. If you are honest and frank people will try to cheat you: Be honest anyway. What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight: Build anyway. If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous of you: Be happy anyway. The good you do today, will often be forgotten by tomorrow: Do good anyway. Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough: Give your best anyway.

Faith in action is love, and love in action is service. By transforming that faith into living acts of love, we put ourselves in contact with God Himself, with Jesus our Lord.

If I'd never have picked up the first person, I'd never have picked up the 42,000 in Calcutta.

God speaks in the silence of the heart. Listening is the beginning of prayer.

None of us, including me, ever do great things. But we can all do small things, with great love, and together we can do something wonderful.

The problem with the world is that we draw the circle of our family too small.

The poorest of the poor are those who feel that they are unloved.