I think that most of us would prefer to be popular than unpopular.

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

Out of the cacophony of random suffering and chaos that can mark human life, the life artist sees or creates a symphony of meaning and order. A life of wholeness does not depend on what we experience. Wholeness depends on how we experience our lives.

Ubuntu really says if you want to be nice to yourself, start in a way by being nice to the other.

Children learn about the nature of the world from their family. They learn about power and about justice, about peace and about compassion within the family. Whether we oppress or liberate our children in our relationships with them will determine whether they grow up to oppress and be oppressed or to liberate and be liberated.

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.

I'm so thankful a significant majority of Americans are saying no to military intervention. We've got to find a solution that will in the end be one that makes Syria a better country, a better people.