"Somewhere we know that without silence words lose their meaning, that without listening speaking no longer heals, that without distance closeness cannot cure."

"The Christian leader of the future is called to be completely irrelevant and to stand in this world with nothing to offer but his or her own vulnerable self. God loves us, not because of what we do or accomplish, but because God has created and redeemed us in love."

"Prayer is the beginning and the end, the source and the fruit, the core and the content, the basis and the goal of all peacemaking."

"If fear is the great enemy of intimacy, love is its true friend."

"Untested assumptions and lazy habits of thought can be shown up, once put in a spotlight of a different hue."

"I thought they may have presumed too much knowledge of certain things for people who are not comedians. Like Montreal. A comic understands what it is and its importance, but someone else may not know about it."

"As a person who is not confrontational by disposition I tend to see that the quality of being confrontational is a positive attribute."

"There's more at risk in what happens in Microsoft than I could ever bet on a poker table."