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.

People cannot accept their own evil if they do not at the same time feel loved, respected and trusted.

Life is a succession of crises and moments when we have to rediscover who we are and what we really want.

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

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

There is nothing stronger than a heart which loves and is freely given.

[Happiness] comes when we choose to be who we are, to be ourselves, at this present moment in our lives.