Compassion is not feeling sorry for others. It's not soft. It requires an intellectual effort.

It's a great event to get outside and enjoy nature. I find it very exciting no matter how many times I see bald eagles.

Look into your own heart, discover what it is that gives you pain and then refuse, under any circumstance whatsoever, to inflict that pain on anybody else.

Jesus did not spend a great deal of time discoursing about the trinity or original sin or the incarnation, which have preoccupied later Christians. He went around doing good and being compassionate.

Each of the world religions has its own particular genius, its own special insight into the nature and requirements of compassion, and has something unique to teach us.

I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness.

Compassion is not an option. It's the key to our survival.

Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their religion to endorse their ego, their identity.

Religion isn’t about believing things. It's ethical alchemy. It’s about behaving in a way that changes you, that gives you intimations of holiness and sacredness.

I am not interested in the afterlife. Religion is supposed to be about losing your ego, not preserving it eternally in optimum conditions.

Surely it's better to love others, however messy and imperfect the involvement, than to allow one's capacity for love to harden.

Those who are critical of my goals and dreams simply do not understand the higher purpose to which I have been called.

The light will and can never be smothered in darkness.

Too much profit is being made at the expense of unsuspecting patients.

I haven't been to too many cons since Star Wars, and I don't think it's really going to change until it comes out.

When things are very real and honest, they don't go away.

Just because I look sexy on the cover of Rolling Stone doesn't mean I'm naughty.

If I meet someone at a bus stop, I want to really meet that person. I don't want to be 'Hugh Jackman, the famous actor.'

I love the idea of creative collaboration. I love the idea of exploring marriages, particularly ones that are in process for a long time.

These martyrs of patriotism gave their lives for an idea.

My business is making people, especially children, happy. I have dedicated much of my time to a study of the problems of children.