God is trying to woo us into a love affair with God.

You stand out in the crowd only because you have these many, many carrying you on their shoulders.

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

We have an incredible capacity for the worst possible evil, all of us, it was that we also have this incredible capacity for good. And that is why we are all of us appalled when something bad happens. Because if the bad was the norm, we would just shrug our shoulders and say "well tough luck, this is how the cookie crumbles" kind of thing but none of us does that.

Those of us who came to be Christians get to remember that forgiveness cost God the death of God's son. It's an expensive thing in many ways.

When you are in love you strive to do the things that will please your lover.

Oh, 1994, April 27. There won't be a day like that ever again. I mean, the sky was blue, with a blueness that had never been there before.