We mustn't romanticize suffering. It can turn people bitter and hard, although it does seem to have been almost indispensable in making people into the kind of leaders that we admire.

We spend billions on banks when we know that a fraction of this money could save all the children in the world.

If you recall the happiest moments in your life, they are all from when you were doing something for somebody else.

There is no justice in killing in the name of justice.

Give a man a fish and feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and feed him for a lifetime. Teach a man to cycle and he will realize fishing is stupid and boring.

Forgiveness is the grace by which you enable the other person to get up and get up with dignity, to begin anew.

When will we learn, when will the people of the world get up and say, Enough is enough. God created us for fellowship. God created us so that we should form the human family, existing together because we were made for one another. We are not made for an exclusive self-sufficiency but for interdependence, and we break the law of our being at our peril.