"Many people are talking about the poor, but very few people talk to the poor."
- Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta

"Whoever the poorest of the poor are, they are Christ for us - Christ under the guise of human suffering."
- Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta
 
"The poor do not need our condescending attitude or our pity.  They only need our love and our tenderness."
- Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta

"All my life I've lived like a dog in the street.  Now I'm dying like an angel.  Surrounded by love and cared for." 
- A homeless man who died in Mother Theresa's "Home for the Dying"