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 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.

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

The abolition of the death penalty is making us a civilized society. It shows we actually do mean business when we say we have reverence for life.

Forgiving is a gift to the forgiver as well as to the perpetrator.

It is by standing up for the rights of girls and women that we truly measure up as men.

Restorative justice says "No, the offense affected a relationship" and what you are seeking for is to restore the relationship, to heal the relationship.