“Loneliness is the leprosy of the modern world.”

“The greatest disease in the West today is not TB or leprosy; it is being unwanted, unloved, and uncared for. We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread but there are many more dying for a little love. The poverty in the West is a different kind of poverty -- it is not only a poverty of loneliness but also of spirituality. There's a hunger for love, as there is a hunger for God.”

“The most terrifying specter that haunts the modern psyche is not death or disease or nuclear annihilation. It is loneliness.”

“One can experience loneliness in two ways: by feeling lonely in the world or by feeling the loneliness of the world.”

“What's worse than cancer? Leprosy.”

“The leprosy of unreality disfigured every human creature in attendance.”