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.

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

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?

Every human activity can be put at the service of the divine and of love. We should all exercise our gift to build community.

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'.

Jesus is the starving, the parched, the prisoner, the stranger, the naked, the sick, the dying. Jesus is the oppressed, the poor. To live with Jesus is to live with the poor. To live with the poor is to live with Jesus.

Power always has a direction. It is always downward, towards the weak but power is often confused with what is right