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

That so called "original sin" does not know any racial discrimination.

You don't have to be smart or anything. The fire warms you.

The reprisal against the suicide bomber does not bring peace. There is a suicide bomber, a reprisal and then a counter-reprisal. And it just goes on and on.

You stand out in the crowd only because you have these many, many carrying you on their shoulders.

One of the things that has always surprised me is why Americans are so patient. Because they have seen not just that freedom has come, what they have seen is that there are some who used to be poor who are very rich, stinking rich some of them.

We pray that Aung San Suu Kyi and her country are now on a path to freedom