There are very few institutions that give prizes to people who may not have got to be number one, but are possibly better at coaxing the best out of others.

Forgiveness does not mean condoning what has been done. Forgiving means abandoning your right to pay back the perpetrator in his own coin.

Each one of us can be an oasis of peace.

As the victim, you offer the gift of your forgiving to the perpetrator who may or may not appropriate the gift but it has been offered and thereby it liberates the victim.

Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone's back.

People took some part of us and used it to discriminate against us. In our case, it was our ethnicity; it's precisely the same thing for sexual orientation.

[Pope Francis ] is taken a selfie!He's a tremendous breath of fresh air.