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

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

To be lonely is to feel unwanted and unloved, and therefor unloveable. Loneliness is a taste of death. No wonder some people who are desperately lonely lose themselves in mental illness or violence to forget the inner pain.

Avoid the poison in your life that brings you turmoil.

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

There is nothing stronger than a heart which loves and is freely given.

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.