To love someone is not first of all to do things for them,but to reveal to them their beauty and value, to say to them through our attitude: 'You are beautiful. You are important. I trust you. You can trust yourself.'

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

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

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

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

It is only when we stand up, with all our failings and sufferings, and try to support others rather than withdraw into ourselves, that we can fully live the life of community.

Our danger is to think that happiness will come from outside of us, from the things we possess or the power of our group, and not from within us, from the inner sanctuary of our being.