My experience on this planet is that if you treat people with respect, they tend to treat you with respect.

America is about choices, including those to live certain lifestyles.

I don't have the power to issue papal decrees.

Religion is here to unite us. It's not here to divide us. If it's dividing us, it's not God's religion, it's something else.

I can't - and won't - impose my beliefs on others, either verbally or otherwise. I'm not going to judge people.

Force yourself to be humble, until it becomes second nature. Then it will be an unconscious activity.

Everything that we do has a spiritual essence. There is a spiritual dimension in everything. All of life has meaning and everything that you do in life is in preparation for your great meeting. This great meeting is your meeting with your Lord, which is absolutely inevitable.