We should think about whether canonizations, which are an invention of the Middle Ages, still make sense today.

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.

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.

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.

To bear a child or to get married is not the primary goal for a lady who wants to become successful in life

In retrospect, perhaps the biggest reason my mother was cared for but not helped for twenty years was the simplest: Her functioning was not that necessary to the world.

Man who man would be must rule the empire of himself.

Persian social manners are well known, and there is no other society that can compete with them.

We must all die. But that I can save him from days of torture, that is what I feel as my great and ever new privilege. Pain is a more terrible lord of mankind than even death itself.

You want to invite new ideas, not new rules.

The phrase "think for one's self" is a pleonasm. Unless one does it for one's self, it isn't thinking.

If I am not mistaken, the word "art" and "artist" did not exist during the Renaissance and before: there were simply architects, sculptors, and painters, practicing a trade.

It's very important to be just to other people. It takes years and years of living to learn that injustice against oneself is always unimportant.

True compassion does not come from wanting to help out those less fortunate than ourselves but from realizing our kinship with all beings.