When children are loved, they live off trust; their bides and hearts open up to those who respect and love them, who understand and listen to them.

The belly laugh is the best way to evacuate anguish.

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

In any case, community is not about perfect people. It is about people who are bonded to each other, each of whom is a mixture of good and bad, darkness and light, love and hate.

To live with Jesus is to live with the poor. To live with the poor is to live with Jesus.

We cannot grow spiritually if we ignore our humanness, just as we cannot become fully human if we ignore our spirituality.

Prayer is like a secret garden made up of silence and rest and inwardness. But there are a thousand and one doors into this garden and we all have to find our own.