There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they're falling in.

I say somewhat facetiously, "I'm so glad I'm not God." Can you imagine being God and looking at Syria and saying: "These are my children. Look at what they're doing to each other."

I hope that you will be amongst those young people who say we worked to change the world. We worked to make the world a more gentle, a more compassionate, a more caring world.

There is no religion in fact that I know that encourages or propagates violence in that its adherents should carry out.

Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.

Serve others. The failing recipe for happiness and success is to want the good of others.

Forgiving is not easy. It is not cheap.