When we break bread and give it to each other, fear vanishes and God becomes very close.

The members - mentally handicapped people who are marginal in society and not useful in an economic sense - welcomed me into their lives. And I was loved, not because of what s doing but because of who I was.

The deepest satisfaction of writing is precisely that it opens up new spaces within us of which we were not aware before we started to write. To write is to embark on a journey whose final destination we do not know.

The leaders of the future will be those who dare to claim their irrelevance in the contemporary world as a divine vocation.

Life is not a possession to be defended, but a gift to be shared.

The pain that comes from deep love makes your love more fruitful. It is like a plow that breaks the ground to allow the seed to take root.

Solitude is the place where we can connect with profound bonds that are deeper than the emergency bonds of fear and anger.