Hate has no place in the house of God. No one should be excluded from our love, our compassion or our concern because of race or gender, faith or ethnicity - or because of their sexual orientation.

I am passionately opposed to the death penalty for anyone . . . I think, myself, that it is an obscenity . . .

I don't know any religion that promotes violence. It is the adherents of whatever religion.

We get most upset with those we love because they are close to us and we know that they are aware of our weaknesses. . . If only we could learn to live with our inadequacies, our frailties, our vulnerabilities, we would not need to try so hard to push away those who really know us.

It was spine tingling, actually, when you saw how people kept saying, "Release Nelson Mandela," and meaning really, "Release all of our political prisoners."

All people would really want peace and all would want to be sure that they would not be taken advantage of.

When we hear a story of the abuse of a child or the abuse of women almost all people are appalled by instances of that kind.