“We learn from history that we don't learn from history!”

“We must be ready to learn from one another, not claiming that we alone possess all truth and that somehow we have a corner on God.”

“A person is a person through other persons.None of us comes into the world fully formed. We would not know how to think, or walk, or speak, or behave as human beings unless we learned it from other human beings. We need other human beings in order to be human. I am because other people are. A person is entitled to a stable community life, and the first of these communities is the family.”

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

“...the cycle of reprisal and counter reprisal that had characterized their national history had to be broken and that the only way to do this was to go beyond retributive justice to restorative justice, to move on to forgiveness, because without it there was no future.”

“We are made for loving. If we don’t love, we will be like plants without water.”

“When we see others as the enemy, we risk becoming what we hate. When we oppress others, we end up oppressing ourselves. All of our humanity is dependent upon recognizing the humanity in others.”