I am struck by how sharing our weakness and difficulties is more nourishing to others than sharing our qualities and successes.

Wisdom is something that comes, little by little, through a lot of listening.

Many people are good at talking about what they are doing, but in fact do little. Others do a lot but don't talk about it; they are the ones who make a community live.

When we love and respect people, revealing to them their value, they can begin to come out from behind the walls that protect them.

All of us have a secret desire to be seen as saints, heroes, martyrs. We are afraid to be children, to be ourselves.

Every human activity can be put at the service of the divine and of love. We should all exercise our gift to build community.

Those we most often exclude from the normal life of society, people with disabilities, have profound lessons to teach us