Human beings have a vested interest in being trustworthy.

Each person is a V.S.P. (a Very Special Person) because we are each created in the image of God.

People are scared in this country [the US], to say wrong is wrong because the Jewish lobby is powerful - very powerful.

I am human because I belong, I participate, I share.

The way sometimes we preach we make out that God is waiting eagerly to catch us out. It's not that way at all. I mean, it is extraordinary because it almost is as if God in fact wills us also to sin, but that is not true.

As a teacher in order not to have to answer too many questions, you stretch your answers.

Forgiveness and reconciliation are not just ethereal, spiritual, other-worldly activities. They have to do with the real world. They are realpolitik, because in a very real sense, without forgiveness, there is no future.