Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories.

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.

The people we consider successful in our society are all people that seize every moment and make the best of each situation.

A woman is not a touch but a response to it

Patents have a place in medical science - for new inventions that advance the state of knowledge.

Americans are paying for our lack of an energy policy with their jobs and out of their pocketbooks.

People, for reasons of kind of security, they tend to move towards people like themselves.

I remember the first time I heard a teenager say 'LOL.' Just what? But it means 'laugh.' Why don't you just laugh? What are you doing?

I think that everything is possible as long as you put your mind to it and you put the work and time into it. I think your mind really controls everything.

For gold the merchant ploughs the main, The farmer ploughs the manor.

When a glass sits on a table here, people don't wonder if it's half filled or half empty. They just hope it's good beer.

There are dreadful moments when death comes very near those we love, even if for the time being it passes by. But life is a great adventure, and the worst of all fears is the fear of living.