To love someone is to show to them their beauty, their worth and their importance.

Envy comes from people's ignorance of, or lack of belief in, their own gifts.

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.

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

Each person with his or her history of being accepted or rejected, with his or her past history of inner pain and difficulties in relationships, is different. But in each one there is a yearning for communion and belonging, but at the same time a fear of it. Love is what we most want, yet it is what we fear the most.

If we love (the poor) people, we want to identify with them and share with them.

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