I think one of the things we must constantly keep in mind is, 'If anybody hits you on one cheek, turn the other. '
I can establish the expectation of retributive justice. Have we done that? No.
Truth and reconciliation' are always combined, but I would split them: I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.
Now we are intimately locked together. You get swine flu in Mexico; it’s a problem for Charles de Gaulle Airport 24 hours later. Lehman Brothers goes down; the whole lot collapses. There are fires in the steppes of Russia; food riots in Africa.
One of the great barriers to peace in the Middle East is that both sides, both Israel and the Palestinians, do not understand that they share a collective destiny.
Maybe it's legitimate criticism, though it can be hurtful. Maybe I haven't paid sufficient attention to the people with whom I would have a natural affinity as a liberal, and they feel let down by that.
In the modern age where everything is connected to everything, the most important thing about what you can do is what you can do with others.
When learning stops, decay sets in.
There can be no high civilization where there is not ample leisure.
Anyone who works in the NHS has superpowers. It's a miracle, it is magic.
I have a lust for life.