The human rights we are to discuss here at Vienna are . . . the quintessential values through which we affirm together that we are a single human community.

I am the shore and the ocean, awaiting myself on both sides.

If we long for our planet to be important, there is something we can do about it. We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and by the depth of our answers.

At home, they'd clipped my wings and then caged me so I couldn't fall. Here, they bandaged one another's broken wings, helped each other fly.

Those who understand God's sovereignty have joy even in the midst of suffering, a joy reflected on their very faces, for they see that their suffering is not without purpose.

Forgiving is easier when we understand that forgiving someone else means that we are freeing ourselves of an unnecessary burden.

I can't explain it. It's what turns you to powder, being ground between what you can't do and what you must do. You just turn to dust.

You can disguise any set with lights and shadows.

If anyone had realized that within 10 years this tiny system that was picked up almost by accident was going to be controlling 50 million computers, considerably more thought might have gone into it.

Who delivered up Jesus to die? Not Judas, for money; not Pilate, for fear; not the Jews, for envy; - but the father, for love!

John Boehner chose a huge gavel. I think somebody's compensating for his small government.