A person who is assured of the love of God will see his fellow men in a different light and treat them and himself differently, and of course this also applies to business leaders.

In many ways, when you're a Nobel peace laureate, you have an obligation to humankind, to society.

The abolition of the death penalty is making us a civilized society. It shows we actually do mean business when we say we have reverence for life.

To remain neutral in situations of injustice is to be complicit in that injustice.

Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone's back.

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.

We were made to enjoy music, to enjoy beautiful sunsets, to enjoy looking at the billows of the sea and to be thrilled with a rose that is bedecked with dew.