If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life.

A theology should be like poetry, which takes us to the end of what words and thoughts can do.

There must be no coercion in matters of faith!

You are your best self when you give yourself away.

I think I get from my books what other people get from family or a relationship or from prayer.

Let us bring something new to the table. Let us use our pain always to remember the others, bring them into the conversation, and get beyond the stereotypes and prejudices that create injustice all over the world.

Sometimes I call myself a freelance, I can't see any one of the great religions as superior to others.