This evening I wish to suggest that we Christians should accompany people on their pilgrimages. Specifically we should travel with people as they search for the good, the true and the beautiful.

I believe that my own Christian faith does indeed make universal claims.

The medieval Church believed that the resurrection of Christ marked a new time for all of humanity.

I believe that his death and resurrection transformed humanity's relationship with God.

Claiming that you have got the truth wrapped up does breed violence and intolerance.

Despite all the lunacy of the last century, all the absurdity of war and genocide, we believe that humans being are rational and are made to seek the truth.

The unutterable violence of the Holocaust shook our confidence in the possibility of telling any story of faith at all.

Clearly a big challenge for Christianity is how to remain in contact with the millions of people who look for God but do not come to Church.

Christians can bring peace to multi-religious Europe because we are able to understand the role of faith in the lives of other believers better than atheists.

The trouble is that after nine years as a Jack of all trades and Master of the Dominican Order, I have no expertise on anything except airports and exotic foods.

We need the wisdom of women, and the experience of married people and parents, and the depth of the contemplative if we are to be formed as preachers.

Jealousy. It's a terrible thing. Unless it's someone else's.

California is a place of invention, a place of courage, a place of vision, a place of the future. People who made California what it is were willing to take risks, think outside convention and build.

I don't think about what other people expect or anything. I mean, I sit and worrying so much about what I'M thinking, I'd go NUTS if I sat around worrying about other people.

Turning your nose up at a genuine and sincere gesture of hospitality is no way to travel or to make friends around the world.

We artists are a different breed of people. We're a happy bunch.

The best Web sites are better than Reality.

Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.

Stay faithful to your own discovery, leave the rest and life will take care of it.

The persons and property of our citizens are entitled to the protection of our government in all places where they may lawfully go.

I regret to say that my hand did, in fact, have an improper relationship with Chelsea Clinton. The incident represents a profound lapse of judgment for which my hand takes sole responsibility.