The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated.

There is no situation that is not transformable. There is no person who is hopeless. There is no set of circumstances that cannot be turned about by ordinary human beings and their natural capacity for love of the deepest sort.

We are going to have to be very careful that we give people the hope that freedom is actually better than unfreedom.

Nursing a grudge is bad for your heath.

You and I are created for transcendence, laughter, caring. God deliberately did not make the world perfect, for God is looking for you and me to be fellow workers with God.

Just as I need other human beings in order to learn from them, so I also need their trust. If we aren't aware of that, if we fail to take it to heart and instead betray other people's trust, things will go badly with us.

You don't have to be smart or anything. The fire warms you.