“We learn history not in order to know how to behave or how to succeed, but to know who we are.”

“The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don't know what to do.”

“If God were a theory, the study of theology would be the way to understand Him. But God is alive and in need of love and worship. This is why thinking of God is related to our worship. In an analogy of artistic understanding, we sing to Him before we are able to understand Him. We have to love in order to know. Unless we learn how to sing, unless we know how to love, we will never learn to understand Him".”

“Without stories, how do we know who we are? How can we imagine who we can be?”

“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.”

“We know how to win wars. We must learn now to win peace...”