Every human being is a mixture of light and darkness, trust and fear, love and hate.

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

I believe every act of violence is also a message that needs to be understood. Violence should not be answered just by greater violence but by real understanding. We must ask: 'Where is the violence coming from? What is its meaning?

All of us have a secret desire to be seen as saints, heroes, martyrs. We are afraid to be children, to be ourselves.

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

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.

Avoid the poison in your life that brings you turmoil.