Fighting for and defending the values from the pulpit is critical. You can't love the Creator, and disrespect the creation.

It's in that convergence of spiritual people becoming active and active people becoming spiritual that the hope of humanity now rests.

If the road to social transformation can be paved only by saints who never make mistakes, the road will NEVER be built.

In a democracy, you won't always get to have your way. But you should always get to have your say.

If we stand for change, we can spark a popular movement with power, influence, magic and genius.

All humans have fear, and those of us who are fortunate have faith.

When it gets harder to love, love harder.

The time has come to move beyond eco-elitism to eco-populism.

Each and every one of us should stop playing small and license ourselves to become one of the giants of the new century. We will need champions by the truckload.

The usual pattern of demagogues is to promise the moon, fail to deliver, and then blame vulnerable others for those failures.

I'm willing to forgo the cheap satisfaction of the radical pose for the deep satisfaction of radical ends.

At the end few things matter more than how well you loved those who love you. Love and honor your family.

It takes billions of years to create a human being. And it takes only a few seconds to die.

I shall bere your noble fame, for ye spake a grete worde and fulfilled it worshipfully.

The purpose of life is to live it.

Doubting pleases me no less than knowing

Only what is essential must be said.

Hell goes round and round. In shape it is circular, and by nature it is interminable, repetitive, and nearly unbearable.

It's hard to have a friend when your name's a household word.

Some writers would be kinder than others, I'm sure. Hopefully they might describe my techniques as a mixture of tried and tested formulas - if it aint broke don't fix it - and unexpected twists.

There is more than one good way to drown.