Abbé Pierre

“Often it is enough to be with someone. I don’t need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You’re not alone.”

“Hope is not believing that all will be well, but that what we do has meaning.”

“My friends, help me. A woman has just frozen to death at 3 a.m. this morning on the pavement... clutching the eviction notice she had received the day before.”

“We must not wait for the world to be perfect to love. We must not wait to be perfect to love.”

“Tell me what you are looking for and I'll tell you what you are.”

“You can't be happy alone.”

“A human life is a life if it is useful to others.”

“The first right of a man is to be of use.”

“The secret to peace is to live on little and to give a lot.”

“God did not invent poverty, man did.”

“The opposite of poverty is not wealth. The opposite of poverty is sharing.”

“One does not wait to be perfect to start something good.”

“A smile costs less than electricity, but gives much more light.”

“It is not enough to be loving, you have to be lovable.”

“To believe is to refuse to despair.”