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

Tradition! We scarcely know the word anymore. We are afraid to be either proud of our ancestors or ashamed of them. We scorn nobility in name and in fact. We cling to a bourgeois mediocrity which would make it appear we are all Americans, made in the image and likeness of George Washington.

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

Love and ever more love is the only solution to every problem that comes up.

We cannot build up the idea of the apostolate of the laity without the foundation of the liturgy.

As we come to know the seriousness of the situation, the war, the racism, the poverty in our world, we come to realize that things will not be changed simply by words or demonstrations. Rather, it's a question of living one's life in a drastically different way.

The sense is always that community is natural to people.