Gratitude is a word that I cherish. Gratitude is what defines the happiness and humanity of the human being.

Fanaticism in many lands has surfaced as the greatest threat to the world. Indifference to its consequences would be a serious mistake.

Today, as yesterday, a nation is judged by its attitude towards refugees.

Better that one heart be broken a thousand times in the retelling, he has decided, if it means that a thousand other hearts need not be broken at all.

One can do without solutions. Only the questions matter. We may share them or turn away from them.

Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.

It's not a weapon, [governments] don't kill, they don't conduct massacres, although massacres have been committed and many people were killed, but they stifle religion, they're afraid probably.