Reforming the social structures which perpetuate poverty and the exclusion of the poor first requires a conversion of mind and heart.

Be the first to seek to bring good, do not grow accustomed to evil, but defeat it.

Dear young people, Jesus wants to be your friend, and wants you to spread the joy of this friendship everywhere.

May the God of peace arouse in all an authentic desire for dialogue and reconciliation. Violence cannot be overcome with violence. Violence is overcome with peace.

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.

Any Church community, if it thinks it can comfortably go its own way without creative concern and effective cooperation in helping the poor to live with dignity and reaching out to everyone, will also risk breaking down.

The people of God want pastors, not clergy acting like bureaucrats or government officials.