It is through weakness and vulnerability that most of us learn empathy and compassion and discover our soul.

We spend billions on banks when we know that a fraction of this money could save all the children in the world.

Love your enemy; it will ruin his reputation.

You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.

It is our moral obligation to give every child the very best education possible.

My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.

Sometimes you want to whisper in God's ear, "God, we know you are in charge, but why don't you make it slightly more obvious?"

The fundamental law of human beings is interdependence. A person is a person through other persons.

Forgiveness is abandoning your right to revenge.

Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.

You are either on the side of the oppressed or on the side of the oppressor. You can't be neutral.

We have allowed the interests of capital to outweigh the interests of human beings and our Earth.

My father always used to say, "Don't raise your voice. Improve your argument.

To remain neutral in situations of injustice is to be complicit in that injustice.

I can't control what happens to me, but I can control how I respond to it.

If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

Peace without justice is an impossibility.

Love is much more demanding than law.

Do your little bit of good where you are; its those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.