Jesus could weep. Sometimes when you look at the ugliness that makes you weep, you know that the heart of God is also weeping. Jesus is for real. He does not give up on anyone, least of all on me.

Do your little bit of good where you are.

God says "I have given you this gift, and it is a real gift. I want you to love me freely, and I will do anything, anything up to giving up the most precious thing I could say I have, my son, to prove I love you. Please come back."

In many ways, when you're a Nobel peace laureate, you have an obligation to humankind, to society.

You don't have to be smart or anything. The fire warms you.

People are able to justify immense cruelty and say that it is something that is sanctioned by their faith.

Suffering is part and parcel of the human condition, but suffering can either embitter or ennoble us. It can ennoble us and become a spirituality of transformation when we find meaning in it.