There will be no peace among the nations without peace among the religions. There will be no peace among the religions without dialogue among the religions.

God's love does not protect us from suffering. God's love protects us in the midst of suffering.

All historical experience demonstrates the following: Our earth cannot be changed unless in the not too distant future an alteration in the consciousness of individuals is achieved.

In the last resort, a love of God without love of humanity is no love at all.

Time and again we see leaders and members of religions incite aggression, fanaticism, hate, and xenophobia - even inspire and legitimate violent and bloody conflicts.

Alluding to hell is a warning that a person can completely neglect his purpose in life. I don't believe in an eternal hell.

There will be peace on earth when there is peace among the world religions.

And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.

After two world wars, the collapse of fascism, nazism, communism and colonialism and the end of the cold war, humanity has entered a new phase of its history.

It is not certain that everything is certain, neither is it certain that everything is uncertain.

We are conscious that religions cannot solve the economic, political and social problems of this earth.

I got lost In your ocean-green eyesAnd I drownedIn the sweetest desireOf your warm gazeWave after waveWith no chanceTo survive.

But if you're gonna dine with them cannibalsSooner or later, darling, you're gonna get eaten . . .

You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment.

I go through stages. Randomly, I'll be attracted to a crazy rocker with tattoos. And I find that I'm extremely attracted to ambition and wit.

Yoga is the music of the soul. So do continue, and the gates of the soul will open.

The essential dilemma of education is to be found in the fact that the sort of man (or woman) who knows a given subject sufficiently well to teach it is usually unwilling to do so.

Four: If you try to force yourself into my head, I will force myself into your pants.

I'll tell you what, it doesn't get more beautiful than the west of Ireland. Connemara and County Derry are quite stunning, really.

The supremacy of the verbal over the monumental has something about it of the supremacy of life over death.

I hope before I am getting too old and when my mind is still functioning, I can tell some better stories.