We so desperately long for all of us to learn that we are meant for one another. We are meant for complementarity. The Syrians are members of our family.

We mustn't romanticize suffering. It can turn people bitter and hard, although it does seem to have been almost indispensable in making people into the kind of leaders that we admire.

We must not only speak about forgiveness and reconciliation, we must act on these principles.

It's a fantastic thing that from moment to the next moment if God were to have stopped for a split second we would disintegrate into nothingness. And the incredible thing is that God breaths this breath and keeps each of us in existence, in being, even when we chose to reject God. Now if I had that kind of power I would snuff you out! But God doesn't.

Nursing a grudge is bad for your heath.

I don't know any religion that promotes violence. It is the adherents of whatever religion.

If God, as they say, is homophobic, I wouldn’t worship that God.