People took some part of us and used it to discriminate against us. In our case, it was our ethnicity; it's precisely the same thing for sexual orientation.

The world's forests are a shared stolen treasure that we must put back for our children's future

God places us in the world as his fellow workers-agents of transfiguration. We work with God so that injustice is transfigured into justice, so there will be more compassion and caring, that there will be more laughter and joy, that there will be more togetherness in God's world.

Forgiveness is not generally something that you find as a coin to be used by politicians.

The abolition of the death penalty is making us a civilized society. It shows we actually do mean business when we say we have reverence for life.

The pressure to succeed has a lot to do with why people overstep the line. It is a peculiar weakness of western culture where we have made a fetish of success.

There is room for everyone; there is room for every culture, race, language and point of view.