We need other human beings in order to be human.

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'm so thankful a significant majority of Americans are saying no to military intervention. We've got to find a solution that will in the end be one that makes Syria a better country, a better people.

Forgiveness is not generally something that you find as a coin to be used by politicians.

This is a moral universe, which means that, despite all the evidence that seems to be to the contrary, there is no way that evil and injustice and oppression and lies can have the last word.

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

To be impartial... is indeed to have taken sides already... with the status quo.