Be close enough to people so that you are indifferent to the material. And also have faith.

There is something so horrifying and so sad when people are living alone. That is why the old and lonely come to us.

True obedience is a matter of love, which makes it voluntary, not compelled by fear or force.

The holy man was the whole man, the man of integrity, who not only tried to change the world, but to live in it as it was.

We need to change the system. We need to overthrow, not the government, as the authorities are always accusing the Communists 'of conspiring to teach [us] to do,' but this rotten, decadent, putrid industrial capitalist system which breeds such suffering in the whited sepulcher of New York.

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.

God forbid we should have great institutions. The thing is to have many small centres. The ideal is community.