I wish that we did have a magic wand which we could wave and hey presto! Magic! Unfortunately life is not like that.

When will we learn, when will the people of the world get up and say, Enough is enough. God created us for fellowship. God created us so that we should form the human family, existing together because we were made for one another. We are not made for an exclusive self-sufficiency but for interdependence, and we break the law of our being at our peril.

My father always used to say, "Don't raise your voice. Improve your argument." Good sense does not always lie with the loudest shouters, nor can we say that a large, unruly crowd is always the best arbiter of what is right.

You think sometimes that maybe if the person who hurt you is clobbered you will feel a little better. But it actually doesn't.

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

If we have loved well while we were alive, there is life after death here-our love will go on for generations.

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.