Compassion is not sympathy. Compassion is mercy. It is a commitment to take responsibility for the suffering of others.

Darkness deserves gratitude. It is the alleluia point at which we learn to understand that all growth does not take place in the sunlight.

Beware the religion that turns you against another one. It's unlikely that it's really religion at all.

Hope is not a matter of waiting for things outside of us to get better. It is about getting better inside about what is going on outside.

We talk religion in a world that worships the bread but does not distribute it, that practices ritual rather than righteousness, that confesses but does not repent.

Grief is a sign that we loved something more than ourselves. . . . Grief makes us worthy to suffer with the rest of the world.

Compassion makes no distinction between friends and enemies, neighbors and outsiders, compatriots and foreigners. Compassion is the gate to human community.

When souls really touch, it is forever. Then space and time disappear, and all that remains is the consciousness that we are not alone in life.

Oppressors do not get to be oppressors in a single sweep. They manage it because little by little, we make them that. We overlook too much in the beginning and wonder why we lost control in the end.

Compassion is the ability to understand how difficult it is for people to be the best of what they want to be at all times.

An authentic spirituality does not cater to culture; it calls culture to accountability.

to avoid being blamed after here, do what you must do as a must do whilst you are here!

Those who foresee the future and recognize it as tragic are often seized by a madness which forces them to commit the very acts which makes it certain that what they dread shall happen.

Well, I think one of the main things that you have to think about when acting in the movies is to try not to make the acting show.

Reasonable men adapt to the world around them unreasonable men make the world adapt to them. The world is changed by unreasonable men.

The whole system of society tells you what to do.

Here's a riddle: When is a croquet mallet like a billy club? I'll tell you: Whenever you want it to be!

It's harder and harder to make a well-done romantic comedy these days because the conventions have been so played out.

I live in a constant state of hyperbole.

Time is love, above all else. It is the most precious commodity in the world and should be lavished on those we care most about.

Once I stopped trying to always do everything my way, and once I asked for God's help, things have truly gone a different direction.