We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.

Brothers and sisters of Egypt, you have given the world the most precious gift: the belief that ultimately right will prevail.

The things [Pope Francis] has done in a short period of time: the fact that he does not live in a huge papal mansion and just dropped by in the dining room where ordinary people have meals. You think of his background, where he didn't use limousines in South America, that he used public transport.

A person is a person through other persons. None of us comes into the world fully formed. We would not know how to think, or walk, or speak, or behave as human beings unless we learned it from other human beings. We need other human beings in order to be human. I am because other people are. A person is entitled to a stable community life, and the first of these communities is the family.

Retributive justice is one that says clobber him or clobber her because they clobbered me. So it emphasizes punishment.

Resentment and anger are bad for your blood pressure and your digestion.

There would be those of us who say that in many ways, you worry about what the Jews in Israel are doing to themselves. Yes, they may at the moment have incredible power and are supported almost unconditionally by especially America, but most of the West as well. Yet what they are doing is contrary to the best teaching and highest teachings of their faith.