The theoretician of the Marxist revolution in Cuba certainly wasn't Castro. It was Don Carlos Rafaelo Rodriguez. He was the theoretician and very often people say he will take over. But I don't believe it. I think that it's a very good combination - the Catholic man working together with a man like that who has everything pretty well planned.

We should live in such a way that our lives wouldn't make much sense if the gospel were not true.

One of the disconcerting facts about the spiritual life is that God takes you at your word.

To love with understanding and without understanding. To love blindly, and to folly. To see only what is loveable. To think only of these things. To see the best in everyone around, their virtues rather than their faults. To see Christ in them!

The work is more important than the talking and the writing about the work.

No matter how corrupt the Church may become, it carries within it the seeds of its own regeneration.

The only answer in this life, to the loneliness we are all bound to feel, is community.