I found it very comforting to see that there is no such thing as a completely normal family. People find their way through whatever the differences may be.

It seems particularly ironic that a church that at one stage, a long time ago, fought to redefine marriage should now be so opposed to these attempts to redefine marriage.

I don't believe that there is anyone of faith whose faith would not be strengthened by those experiences of family.

When I was younger, not being accepted made me enraged, but now, I am not inclined to dismantle my history. If you banish the dragons, you banish the heroes-and we become attached to the heroic strain in our personal history.

I think a lot of the time people assume that their values are universal. And they don't understand which aspects of their values are actually universal and which aspects are very specific.

The tragedies that are being brought about vastly outweigh the benefits that are being achieved.

I think an awful lot of the diplomatic problems that exist in the world come from people assuming that their society is the one with a purchase on truth.