Love doesn't mean doing extraordinary or heroic things. It means knowing how to do ordinary things with tenderness.

So we need places, laboratories, the creation of places which could be each one of our homes, where we invite people who are different, and we listen to each other, people of different class groups.

A community is only a community when the majority of its members are making the transition from 'the community for myself' to 'myself for the community'.

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.'

A tension or difficulty can signal the approach of a new grace of God. But it has to be looked at wisely and humanly.

Community begins in mystery and ends in administration. Leaders move away from people and into paper.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness.