"Violence rests on the assumption that the enemy and I are entirely different: the enemy is evil and I am good. The enemy must be destroyed but I must be saved. But love sees things differently. It sees that even the enemy suffers from the same sorrows and limitations that I do."
"Words are like fingers pointing at the moon. If you stare at the finger, you miss all the heavenly glory."
"The greatest politeness is free of all formality. Perfect conduct is free of concern. Perfect wisdom is unplanned. Perfect love is without demonstrations."
"We are responsible for the world we live in, not just because we are its inhabitants, but because we are its creators. Every act of injustice, every word of hatred, every silence in the face of wrong, adds a seed to the destruction that we all fear."
"Solitude is not a place apart, but a way of being. It is the silence of the heart that listens for the word of God in the midst of the world."
"Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone—we find it with another."
"For each one of us, there is only one thing necessary: to fulfill our own destiny, according to God’s will, to be what God wanted us to be."