Mother Teresa

"Cheerfulness is the best form of service we can give to the poor."

"Joy must be one of the pivots on which our life hinges."

"I hear voices calling me. I feel them pulling at my heart. This is my call, my life."

"God has identified himself with the hungry, the sick, the naked, the homeless; food that is wasted is food that is stolen from the hungry."

"What matters is not how long we have lived, but how well."

"Money is not evil; the love of money is evil."

"A smile is the beginning of peace."

"The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted."

"We are all pencils in God's hand."

"Suffering is a gift from God."

"If you have two pieces of bread, give one to the poor."

"By blood, I am Albanian. By citizenship, an Indian. By faith, I am a Catholic nun. As to my calling, I belong to the world."

"The poor must know that we are here with them, that they are not alone."

"To be unwanted is the greatest poverty."

"We cannot do great things, but we can do small things with exquisite love."

"Cleanliness is next to godliness. Let us be clean so that we can touch the bodies of the poor with reverence."

"Every person is Christ in disguise."

"This is the time to be faithful, not successful."

"God has infinite patience. So should we."

"Being kind costs nothing, but it means everything."

"The wound is the place where the Light enters you."

"I am a little pencil. Every day he uses me and I know nothing of it."

"All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle."

"When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps."

"God's love is infinite, it never fails, it never changes."

"Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams."

"The cross in the bedroom of a child or on the heart of a laborer means a constant effort and a constant struggle."

"The poor are our treasure. They are the source of our salvation."

"My mission is not just to feed the body but to nourish the soul."

"If we lose the poor, we lose Jesus."