When a family loses its ability to dream, children don't grow, love doesn't grow and life loses strength, eventually it shuts off.

I don’t know if it is all (man’s fault) but the majority is, for the most part, it is man who continuously slaps down nature.

The real power is love, that which empowers others, that which arouses action, that which no chain is able to hold back, for even on the Cross or on the death bed one is able to love. One does not need youthful beauty, nor recognition or approval, nor money or prestige. Let love simply bloom...and it is unstoppable.

No one is saved alone, as an isolated individual, but God attracts us looking at the complex web of relationships that take place in the human community. God enters into this dynamic, this participation in the web of human relationships.

Let us learn to live with kindness, to love everyone, even when they do not love us.

In a world often marked by selfishness, a large family is a school of solidarity and sharing; and this attitude is to the benefit of society as a whole.... I always thank the Lord in seeing mothers and fathers of large families, together with their children, committed to the life of the Church and of society.

If we start without confidence, we have already lost half the battle and we bury our talents.