You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.

I can't for the life of me imagine that God would say, 'I will punish you because you are black; you should have been white. I will punish you because you are a woman; you should have been a man. I punish you because you are homosexual; you ought to have been heterosexual. I can't, I can't for the life of me believe that that is how God sees things.

We must be ready to learn from one another, not claiming that we alone possess all truth and that somehow we have a corner on God.

We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.

Give a man a fish and feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and feed him for a lifetime. Teach a man to cycle and he will realize fishing is stupid and boring.

Each one of us is not a divine afterthought.

I don't often want to speak. I try to be a reasonable person and to be diplomatic, but you go to that place and you see the settlements, you see what has happened to the land that was owned by the Palestinians.