Where does one go in a tremendous city like Calcutta to find insider information? I recalled India's golden rule: do the opposite of what would be normal anywhere else.
India's way is not Europe's. India is not Calcutta and Bombay. India lives in her seven hundred thousand villages.
You can find Calcutta all over the world, if you have the eyes to see.
In Calcutta alone, we have given more than 1,000 children in adoption. I cannot calculate how many babies we get a year. But we never refuse anybody. Everybody is most welcome.
I see God in every human being
Find your own Calcutta. Find the sick, the suffering and the lonely right there where you are.
The last person to be beatified by Pope John Paul II was Mother Teresa of Calcutta in 2003.
Now, if you're rich, you can spend a lot of money, Netherlands-style, and reduce that. But Bangladesh or parts of India, like Calcutta, they just simply won't be able to afford that kind of protection.
Mother Theresa always said, "Calcuttas are everywhere if only we have eyes to see. Find your Calcutta. "
If I'd never have picked up the first person, I'd never have picked up the 42,000 in Calcutta.
A life not lived for others is not a life.
There should be less talk. A preaching point is not a meeting point.
You see for me, America is an idea. It is a stage for transformation. I felt when I came to Iowa City from Calcutta that suddenly I could be a new person. . . What America offers me is romanticism and hope. . . Suddenly, I found myself in a country where
Calcutta is like another world. People there are very special and grateful.
Whatever you do to the least of my brethren, you do it to me.
Bring love into your home, for this is where our love for each other must start
An incident that left an impression on me was the 1999 sub-junior national boxing championship held in Calcutta. I had trained extremely hard to get there but got kicked out in the first round itself. 'If others can win, why can't you?' I repeatedly asked myself.
Recovering in a Calcutta, India hospital. I think I'm more difficult than critical.
We know who left the country. And many were Bengalis from West Bengal, sent from Calcutta. It was she who sent them - Mrs. [Indira] Gandhi.
Unless a life is lived for others, it is not worthwhile.
