Machines help us do things more quickly and efficiently, but they can also destroy some community activities. Machines can also throw the weakest people out of work and this would be sad, because their small contribution to the housework or cooking is their way of giving something to the community. People who are capable of doing things very quickly with the help of machines become tremendously busy, always active, in charge of everyone - a bit like machines themselves.

If we are to grow in love, the prisons of our egoism must be unlocked. This implies suffering, constant effort and repeated choices.

Peace is the fruit of love, a love that is also justice. But to grow in love requires work -- hard work. And it can bring pain because it implies loss -- loss of the certitudes, comforts, and hurts that shelter and define us.

Love is to recognize that the other person is a person, is precious, is important and has value.

Community begins in mystery and ends in administration. Leaders move away from people and into paper.

A community is only a community when the majority of its members are making the transition from 'the community for myself' to 'myself for the community'.

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