Making the truth public is a form of justice. This is a moral universe and you've got to take account of the fact that truth and lies and goodness and evil are things that matter.

As a Christian, I believe in the sanctity of life and that death is a part of life.

You are either on the side of the oppressed or on the side of the oppressor. You can't be neutral.

Forgiveness is the grace by which you enable the other person to get up and get up with dignity, to begin anew.

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.

In its history, Europe has committed so many massacres and horrors that it should bow its own head in shame.

We mustn't romanticize suffering. It can turn people bitter and hard, although it does seem to have been almost indispensable in making people into the kind of leaders that we admire.