Revenge has a way of corroding you, the revenger. You know it doesn't heal you.

I would refuse to go to a homophobic heaven. No, I would say sorry, I mean I would much rather go to the other place.

Retributive justice is one that says clobber him or clobber her because they clobbered me. So it emphasizes punishment.

Without forgiveness, there is no future. Forgiveness is not nebulous, impractical and idealistic. It's thoroughly realistic. It's real political in the long run.

If you want to keep people subjugated, the last thing you place in their hands is a Bible. There's nothing more radical, nothing more revolutionary, nothing more subversive against injustice and oppression than the Bible.

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

One of the things that people sense is that you are not doing this for self-glorification, you are doing it for the sake of others. The Dalai Lama has been in exile for so many years, yet the Chinese are running scared of him.