Sadly, the things that we have set out as being worth striving for are not ultimately the things that satisfy human longings. And why not? Because we are practically the ultimate paradox: the finite made for the infinite.

I am not an afterthought I am not an accident.

The pressure to succeed has a lot to do with why people overstep the line. It is a peculiar weakness of western culture where we have made a fetish of success.

God is on the side of the oppressed.

Resentment and anger are bad for your blood pressure and your digestion.

We can only be human together.

There are two forms of justice. There is what is called retributive justice and there is restorative justice.