Injustice and corruption will never be transformed by keeping them hidden, but only by bringing them out into the light and confronting them with the power of love.

You can’t reach good ends through evil means, because the means represent the seed and the end represents the tree.

There may be a conflict between softminded religionists and toughminded scientists, but not between science and religion.

You know, my friends, there comes a time when people get tired of being trampled over by the iron feet of oppression. There comes a time, my friends, when people get tired of being plunged across the abyss of humiliation, where they experience the bleakness of nagging despair. There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life’s July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November.

Our children need our presence, not our presents.

Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.

True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.