I would hope that wherever I was I would be me. I have been influenced by some wonderful people who showed me that there is an integral relationship between faith and life at home. Evil is evil, repression is repression anywhere. And if it is not consistent with what one believes is God's will, then I would hope that one would be able to witness it, and there are wonderful people who do so in very great risks to themselves.

In its history, Europe has committed so many massacres and horrors that it should bow its own head in shame.

Serve others. The failing recipe for happiness and success is to want the good of others.

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

Have you seen a symphony orchestra? There is a person at the back carrying a triangle. Now and again the conductor will point to him or her and that person will play "ting." That might seem so insignificant, but in the conception of the composer something irreplaceable would be lost to the total beauty of the symphony if that "ting" did not happen.

One day we'll wake up and discover we are family.

We were an extraordinary paradox. We are finite creatures made for the infinite.