That so called "original sin" does not know any racial discrimination.

Most people would say "Ah, Mahatma Gandhi, what a wonderful man, Mother Teresa, maybe Martin Luther King Jr., Nelson Mandela, Dalai Lama." And when you look at those people it's not the macho, aggressive, successful people, we may envy them, their bank balances and kind of thing, yes and for being successful. But we do not revere them.

Forgiveness is an absolute necessity for continued human existence.

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

You have seen after Katrina just what failures there are in American Society.

Instead of separation and division, all distinctions make for a rich diversity to be celebrated for the sake of the unity that underlies them. We are different so that we can know our need of one another.

Hate has no place in the house of God.