If your heart is full of fear, you won't seek truth; you'll seek security. If a heart is full of love, it will have a limbering effect on the mind.

The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love.

In our time all it takes for evil to flourish is for a few good men to be a little wrong and have a great deal of power, and for the vast majority of their fellow citizens to remain indifferent.

Diversity may be the hardest thing for a society to live with, and perhaps the most dangerous thing for a society to be without.

I love the recklessness of faith. First you leap, and then you grow wings.

The cause of violence is not ignorance. It is self-interest. Only reverance can restrain violence - reverance for human life and the environment.

Love measures our stature: the more we love, the bigger we are. There is no smaller package in all the world than that of a man all wrapped up in himself.

There is nothing anti-intellectual in the leap of faith, for faith is not believing without proof but trusting without reservation.

To show compassion for an individual without showing concern for the structures of society that make him an object of compassion is to be sentimental rather than loving.

Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible.

The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love. We can never really love anybody with whom we never laugh. Love is in the giver, not the gift.

when you look to some one, That moment you looked away from yourself.

When someone can love without judging, he is truly wise.

What you are trying to let go of...is already gone.

Is it logical that two people can disagree and that both can be right? It's not logical: it's psychological. And it's very real.

Friends are like bras: close to your heart and there for support.

I've got an image of me at the bottom of my garden sitting under my silver birch tree reading, while everyone else had gone somewhere exotic.

Words of affection, howsoe'er expressed, The latest spoken still are deem'd the best.

Millions of Americans who know that Barack understands their dreams; that Barack will fight for people like them; and that Barack will finally bring the change we need.

A song is like a picture of a bird in flight; the bird was moving before the picture was taken, and no doubt continued after.