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.

Those we most often exclude from the normal life of society, people with disabilities, have profound lessons to teach us

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

In the end, the most important thing is not to do things for people who are poor and in distress, but to enter into relationship with them, to be with them and help them find confidence in themselves and discover their own gifts.

We can be seduced...by powerful political groups that promise more wealth and lower taxes. Those with power can use clever, psychological tricks and play upon our weaknesses and brokenness in order to attract us to their way of thinking. We can be manipulated into illusion.

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

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'.