I'm so, so thrilled that [Pope Francis] is there at this crucial moment in the history of our world.

We can encourage more of our universities and municipalities, foundations, corporations, individuals and cultural institutions... to move their money out of the problem (fossil fuels) and into the solutions (renewable energy)

We must be ready to learn from one another, not claiming that we alone possess all truth and that somehow we have a corner on God.

People in apartheid South Africa can tell you that God cursed black people when they cursed Him. And so the hermetic people were condemned to be drawers of water and of wood.

I am passionately opposed to the death penalty for anyone . . . I think, myself, that it is an obscenity . . .

There's no way in which you can ever win a war against terror. As long as there are conditions in many parts of the world that make people desperate: poverty, disease, ignorance, etc. I hope that we will discover soon, that we can survive, only together. We can prosper only together. And I think people are beginning to realize this, that you can't have pockets of prosperity in one part of the world and huge deserts of poverty and deprivation and think you can have a stable, secure world.

Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.