It always comes back to our insecurities, as we say, "Oh, I'm not as good as you." So instead of accepting that perhaps I am not as good as someone else in some ways and being comfortable with who I am as I am, I spend all my time denigrating you, trying to cut you down to my self-perceived size. The sad problem is that we see ourselves as being quite terribly small. Instead of spending my time being envious, I need to celebrate your and my different gifts, even if mine are perhaps less spectacular than yours.

We must not allow ourselves to become like the system we oppose.

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

I say somewhat facetiously, "I'm so glad I'm not God." Can you imagine being God and looking at Syria and saying: "These are my children. Look at what they're doing to each other."

I am passionately opposed to the death penalty for anyone . . . I think, myself, that it is an obscenity . . .

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

God hopes that we are going to love God back.