When we are generous in welcoming people and sharing something with them-some food, a place in our homes, our time-not only do we no longer remain poor: we are enriched. I am well aware that when someone needing food knocks at your door, you always find a way of sharing food; as the proverb says, one can always 'add more water to the beans'! Is it possible to add more water to the beans?...Always?...And you do so with love, demonstrating that true riches consist not in materials things, but in the heart!

To celebrate the sacrament of reconciliation means to be wrapped in a warm embrace.

Where there is no work, there is no dignity.

Peace is a daily commitment. It is a homemade peace.

The thing the Church needs most today is the ability to heal wounds and to warm the hearts of the faithful.

Holiness doesn't mean doing extraordinary things, but doing ordinary things with love and faith.

Division within a Christian community is a very grave sin; it is the work of the devil.