Compassion is a piece of vocabulary that could change us if we truly let it sink into the standards to which we hold ourselves and others.

Intelligence alone does not get us where we need to go or even necessarily where we want to go. For that, the human creature must exercise harder-won capacities of wisdom, and wise action.

The things that go wrong for you have a lot of potential to become part of your gift to the world.

You are not going to be perfect every day. It’s about turning up the next day and doing it again.

Silence is an endangered quantity in our time... Silence, embraced, stuns with its presence, its pregnant reality—a reality that does not negate reason and argument, but puts them in their place.

I dont accept the idea that there are two sides to any issue. I think that the middle ground is to be found within most of us.

You can disagree with another person's opinions. You can disagree with their doctrines. You can't disagree with their experience.

What a liberating thing to realize that our problems are probably our richest sources for rising to the ultimate virtue of compassion.

Compassion is a spiritual technology.

How we carry what has gone wrong for us is essential to being at home in ourselves, and present to the world with all of its failings.

In many ways, religion comes from the same place in us that art comes from. The language of the human heart if poetry

I've never outgrown that feeling of mild pride, of acceptance, when children take your hand.

There are two ways to read Scripture - the way a lawyer reads a will and the way an heir reads a will.

...When the government goes into the business of destroying trust, it goes into the business of destroying itself.

Thanks to President Obama, being a woman will no longer be a pre-existing condition!

I remember the past, and I learn from it. I rejoice and celebrate in the present, and I re-imagine the future. Now is the moment that never ends.

I like to read books. I like to listen to music.

It never rains in Tiger Stadium.

I think path in spirituality chooses us. I doubt seriously that we really have much choice in the matter.

Not in the history of mankind has the government ever created a job.

Many people are skeptical about marriage of Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Pressley. They say, Lisa Marie is more of a sit at home type, while Michael Jackson is more of a homosexual pedophile.