Prayer has comforted us in sorrow and will help strengthen us for the journey ahead.

I was taught that we should look after the beam in our own eye before searching for the mote in someone else's.

The greatest power of freedom is to overcome hatred and violence, and turn the creative gifts of men and women to the pursuits of peace.

When you know that somebody lost their loved one as a result of a decision that I made, that's a tough moment. If you're a faithful person you try to empathize with the suffering that that person is going through.

Self-government relies, in the end, on the governing of the self.

The cornerstone of our policy in that part of the world is to help democracies. Lebanon's a democracy. We want the Siniora government to succeed.

International law? I better call my lawyer; he didn't bring that up to me.