The greatest single antidote to violence is conversation.

When everything that matters can be bought and sold, when commitments can be broken because they are no longer to our advantage, when shopping becomes salvation and advertising slogans become our litany, when our worth is measured by how much we earn and spend, then the market is destroying the very virtues on which in the long run it depends.

The supreme religious challenge is to see God’s image in one who is not in our image.

If we are to cherish freedom, and to guard it, we must remember what the alternative is: the bread of affliction and the bitter herbs of slavery.

We should challenge the relativism that tells us there is no right or wrong, when every instinct of our mind knows it is not so, and is a mere excuse to allow us to indulge in what we believe we can get away with. A world without values quickly becomes a world without value.

In our interconnected world, we must learn to feel enlarged, not threatened, by difference - that is what I have argued.

While we can remember the past, we cannot write the future. Only our children, the future of our community, can do that.