Those who have the largest hearts have the soundest understandings; and they are the truest philosophers who can forget themselves.

I like to see myself as a bridge builder, that is me building bridges between people, between races, between cultures, between politics, trying to find common ground.

Have you ever been guilty of having a condescending attitude about another person's weakness? How can we dare to think we can access the soul-cleansing blood that delivers us from the cesspool of our secret sins, and then look down on another member of Christ's Body in disdain?

Just as hundreds of brushstrokes comprised a finished canvas, people were made up of a lifetime of experiences, both good and bad. And without knowing what someone had endured, it was impossible to truly know them—and accept them—for who they were.

Manners is treating people with respect.

I like to speak on matters which matter to human beings, and almost everything matters to human beings.

Arguing with my wife is like this: "I came! I saw! I concurred!"

A religious man is a person... whose greatest passion is compassion.

Strength and compassion are not mutually exclusive.

I repeat, whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all.

For the rest, he was the same to all men, the fashionable world and the ordinary people. He judged nothing in haste, or without taking account of the cirumstances. He said, 'Let me see how the fault arose.

Common right is nought but the protection of all radiating over the right of each. This protection of all is termed Fraternity. The point of intersection of all these aggregated sovereignties is called Society. This intersection being a junction, this point is a knot. Hence comes what is called the social tie.