We cannot love ourselves unless we love others, and we cannot love others unless we love ourselves. But a selfish love of ourselves makes us incapable of loving others.

Here is an unspeakable secret: paradise is all around us and we do not understand.

I myself am part of the weather and part of the climate and part of the place … It is certainly part of my life of prayer.

The fruitfulness of our lives depends in large measure in our ability to doubt our own words and to question the value of our own work. The man who completely trusts his own estimate of himself is doomed to sterility.

If a man is to live, he must be all alive, body, soul, mind, heart, spirit.

The only way to make a man worthy of love is by loving him.

I stand among you as one who offers a small message of hope. . . there are always people who dare to seek on the margin of society, who are not dependent on social acceptance, not dependent on social routine, and prefer a kind of free-floating existence under a state of risk.