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.

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.

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

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.

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

A man's free will cannot cure him even of the toothache, or a sore finger; and yet he madly thinks it is in its power to cure his soul.

Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.

Our message of the day is service does not need a title.

I would not pre-pay. I would invest instead and let the investments cover it.

When a person is on a watch list or a no-fly list, and I have the endorsement of the NRA, which I'm very proud of. These are very, very good people, and they're protecting the Second Amendment.

A lion is not a lion is not a lion. As individuals, as mates, as members of a society, they're all very different.

I'm so much more confident and sexy at thirty-eight than I ever was when I was eighteen or twenty-four.

Our ordinary abilities will never worship God unless they are transformed by the indwelling Son of God.

Terms such as obscene are used swiftly in order to protect people from exposure to the truth.