Many people are good at talking about what they are doing, but in fact do little. Others do a lot but don't talk about it; they are the ones who make a community live.

The belly laugh is the best way to evacuate anguish.

At the heart of the celebration, there are the poor. If [they] are excluded, it is not longer a celebration. [...] A celebration must always be a festival of the poor.

Wisdom is something that comes, little by little, through a lot of listening.

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

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.

Love is to recognize that the other person is a person, is precious, is important and has value.