"I extend to you my hand in friendship and love, because I know that each of you is, as I am, a child of God. I can forgive you when you cannot forgive yourselves, and I can strengthen you when you cannot find the strength within yourselves. What I ask of you is simple. I ask that you express charity with every deed, thought and word within this world. Make each action a cause of relief to others in their suffering or a cause of growth to them in their understanding of the way of love and peace. I offer you the way of love and the way of peace, and I extend my hand to you in the hope that you will join me in this way."