"You've got to be a thermostat rather than a thermometer. A thermostat shapes the climate of opinion; a thermometer just reflects it."

"To be a Christian is to be a prisoner of hope."

"The world is a very complicated place. And we need to have a profound sense of humility."

"We've got to get beyond the ways in which the political system has been colonized by corporate wealth and by monied elite."

"Hope is not optimism. Hope is a spiritual weapon."