People cannot accept their own evil if they do not at the same time feel loved, respected and trusted.

If we love (the poor) people, we want to identify with them and share with them.

Machines help us do things more quickly and efficiently, but they can also destroy some community activities. Machines can also throw the weakest people out of work and this would be sad, because their small contribution to the housework or cooking is their way of giving something to the community. People who are capable of doing things very quickly with the help of machines become tremendously busy, always active, in charge of everyone - a bit like machines themselves.

Those we most often exclude from the normal life of society, people with disabilities, have profound lessons to teach us

One of the marvelous things about community is that it enables us to welcome and help people in a way we couldn't as individuals.