One of the marvelous things about community is that it enables us to welcome and help people in a way we couldn't as individuals.

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.

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?

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

People cannot accept their own evil if they do not at the same time feel loved, respected and trusted.

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

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