Once you have women liberated, it's amazing how many other problems get resolved--pover ty, education, health. Women are the key in any community.

The only separation the Bible knows is between believers on the one hand and unbelievers on the other. Any other kind of separation, division, disunity is of the devil. It is evil and from sin.

The things [Pope Francis] has done in a short period of time: the fact that he does not live in a huge papal mansion and just dropped by in the dining room where ordinary people have meals. You think of his background, where he didn't use limousines in South America, that he used public transport.

No peace is impossible when people are determined to achieve it

I've often been a little concerned by people who say they are color-blind, people who claim, in some ways, not to be aware of race, and I hope that those who will be looking for a vision of the future will be a little more honest, and say race actually does matter.

We are given an autonomy and the real autonomy... and God would much rather we went freely to hell than compel us to go to heaven.

Many people would be surprised that, in fact, I'm quite shy.