I'm not an optimist. I'm a prisoner of hope.

People almost always imagine that life is going to be better in town and that the streets of the town are paved with gold.

We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.

And you remember the rainbow in the Bible is the sign of peace. The rainbow is the sign of prosperity. We want peace, prosperity and justice and we can have it when all the people of God, the rainbow people of God, work together.

I am because other people are.

Even the worst dictator, there is not a single one of them who would say "Oh yes, I violate human rights." They all claim "oh no, we respect human rights" even when they are doing the most egregious things.

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