“If we could read the past histories of all our enemies we would disregard all hostility for them.”

“If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.”

“The great courageous act that we must all do, is to have the courage to step out of our history and past so that we can live our dreams.”

“None of our republics would be anything if we weren't all together; but we have to create our own history - history of United Yugoslavia, also in the future.”

“We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.”

“As we experience this love, there is a temptation at times to become hostile to our earlier understandings, feeling embarrassed that we were so "simple" or "naive," or "brainwashed" or whatever terms arise when we haven't come to terms with our own story. These past understandings aren't to be denied or dismissed; they're to be embraced. Those experiences belong. Love demands that they belong. That's where we were at that point in our life and God met us there. Those moments were necessary for us to arrive here, at this place at this time, as we are. Love frees us to embrace all of our history, the history in which all things are being made new.”