Forgiveness is the grace by which you enable the other person to get up and get up with dignity, to begin anew.

Life is funny and we are really funny, especially when we get to be hoity toity; we can be so ridiculous. Life is fun.

And you remember the rainbow in the Bible is the sign of peace. The rainbow is the sign of prosperity. We want peace, prosperity and justice and we can have it when all the people of God, the rainbow people of God, work together.

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

A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.

God says, 'You know what? I don't have anybody else... except you.'

The things [Pope Francis] has done in a short period of time: the fact that he does not live in a huge papal mansion and just dropped by in the dining room where ordinary people have meals. You think of his background, where he didn't use limousines in South America, that he used public transport.