Joy must be one of the pivots of our life. It is the token of a generous personality. Sometimes it is also a mantle that clothes a life of sacrifice and self-giving. A person who has this gift often reaches high summits. He or she is like sun in a community.

... do not spare me in anything -- let there be less and less of me in everything.

People who really want help may attack you if you help them. Help them anyway.

You know my God. My God is called love

Don't expect your friend to be a perfect person. Help your friend to become a perfect person. That is true friendship.

Life is luck, make it

Be humble and you will never be disturbed. It is very difficult in practice because we all want to see the result of our work. Leave it to Jesus.

The way you help heal the world is you start with your own family.

Make us worthy Lord to serve our fellow men throughout the world who live and die in poverty and hunger. Give them through our hands this day their daily bread and by our understanding love, give peace and joy.

Life is a game, play it

We have picked up people full of worms from the streets, cared for them and let them die in peace and love. When they are brought to our home, they feel they are in their own homes, with their own families. Now, I am trying to open a house for AIDS victims here (in Delhi). The people are dying because of it.

Be the living expression of God's kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.

I think it is very beautiful for the poor to accept their lot, to share it with the passion of Christ. I think the world is being much helped by the suffering of the poor people.

We must see Christ in the disturbing disguise of the poor.

If there are poor on the moon, we will go there too

Do we know our poor people? Do we know the poor in our house, in our family? Perhaps they are not hungry for a piece of bread. Perhaps our children, husband, wife, are not hungry, or naked, or dispossessed, but are you sure there is no one there who feels unwanted, deprived of affection?

You who have received so much love, share it with others. Love others the way that God has loved you, with tenderness.

Never travel faster than your guardian angel can fly.

Our poor people are great people, a very lovable people, They don't need our pity and sympathy. They need our understanding love and they need our respect. We need to tell the poor that they are somebody to us that they, too, have been created, by the same loving hand of God, to love and be loved.

The greatest destroyer of love and peace is abortion, which is war against the child. The mother doesn't learn to love, but kills to solve her own problems. Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love, but to use any violence to get what they want.

The more you forget yourself, the more Jesus will think of you.

Give! Give the love you have received to those around you. You must love with your time, your hands, and your hearts. You need to share all that you have.

A life not lived for others is not a life