It is difficult to make people understand that the ideal doesn't exist, that personal equilibrium and the harmony they dream of come only after years and years of struggle, and that even then they come only as flashes of grace and peace.

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.

[Happiness] comes when we choose to be who we are, to be ourselves, at this present moment in our lives.

The strong need the weak as much as the weak need the strong

The person in misery does not need a look that judges and criticizes but a comforting presence that brings peace and hope and life and says: 'you are a human person: important, mysterious, infinitely precious, what you have to say is important because it flows from a humn person; in you there are those seeds of the infinite, those germs of love... of beauty which must rise from the earth of your misery so humanity be fulfilled. If you do not rise then something will be missing... Rise again because we all need you... be loved beloved.'

We work for peace every time we exercise authority with wisdom and authentic love.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness.