A person is a person through other persons. None of us comes into the world fully formed. We would not know how to think, or walk, or speak, or behave as human beings unless we learned it from other human beings. We need other human beings in order to be human. I am because other people are. A person is entitled to a stable community life, and the first of these communities is the family.

Once lost, trust can only be regained if we are as good as our word.

When people decide they want to be free, there is nothing that can stop them.

Dream of a world where poverty is history, dream of a world where we don't spend those obscene billions on arms, knowing full well that a tiny fraction of those budgets of death would ensure that children everywhere had clean water to drink, could afford the cheap inoculations against preventable diseases, would have good schools, adequate healthcare and decent homes.

God would come down and lead us out of bondage. And God led us out of bondage.

I can't control what happens to me, but I can control how I respond to it.

There is no religion in fact that I know that encourages or propagates violence in that its adherents should carry out.