When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.

If there is some corner of the world which has remained peaceful, but with a peace based on injustices the peace of a swamp with rotten matter fermenting in its depths - we may be sure that that peace is false. Violence attracts violence. Let us repeat fearlessly and ceaselessly: injustices bring revolt, either from the oppressed or from the young, determined to fight for a more just and more human world.

When we are dreaming alone it is only a dream. When we are dreaming with others, it is the beginning of reality.

Without justice and love, peace will always be a great illusion.

In the Father's house we shall meet Buddhists and Jews, Muslims and Protestants.

I love looking at you, hundred-year-old tree, loaded with shoots and boughs as though you were a stripling. Teach me the secret of growing old like you, open to life, to youth, to dreams, as somebody aware that youth and age are merely steps towards eternity.

Any time, day or night, at home or in the street, wherever we are, we live bathed in God. If we always kept this in mind, it would be impossible to sin.