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

People are longing to rediscover true community. We have had enough of loneliness, independence and competition.

A growing community must integrate three elements: a life of silent prayer, a life of service and above all of listening to the poor, and a community life through which all its members can grow in their own gift.

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

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.

When we begin to believe that there is greater joy in working with and for others, rather than just for ourselves, then our society will truly become a place of celebration.

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