I'm so thankful a significant majority of Americans are saying no to military intervention. We've got to find a solution that will in the end be one that makes Syria a better country, a better people.

Some of us might look like accidents, but I mean none of us is in fact an accident.

Too many people think that reconciliation means you soft-pedal differences.

We must be ready to learn from one another, not claiming that we alone possess all truth and that somehow we have a corner on God.

This is a moral universe, which means that, despite all the evidence that seems to be to the contrary, there is no way that evil and injustice and oppression and lies can have the last word.

We must not allow ourselves to become like the system we oppose. We cannot afford to use methods of which we will be ashamed when we look back, when we say, '...we shouldn't have done that.'

People will use their religion to justify virtually anything.