There can be no healing without truth.

I will never tell anyone to pick up a gun. But I will pray for the man who picks up a gun, pray that he will be less cruel than he might otherwise have been.

I think we have got to put fire under the feet of all kinds of people.

I can't control what happens to me, but I can control how I respond to it.

We need other human beings in order to be human.

And one day, this thing happened to me: I coughed, and the blood just came gushing out of my mouth. ... I still can't believe that that happened to me, but I sat there, and I said to God, 'Well, if it means I'm going to die, that's OK.' I don't think I've ever felt that same kind of peace, the kind of serenity that I felt after acknowledging that maybe I was going to die of this TB.

In its history, Europe has committed so many massacres and horrors that it should bow its own head in shame.