This LGBT singing choir has demonstrated how women are investing in tradition to create change, like alchemists turning discord into harmony.

We need women who are so strong they can be gentle, so educated they can be humble, so fierce they can be compassionate, so passionate they can be rational, and so disciplined they can be free.

People with lower incomes tend to give a greater percentage of their incomes to help others and show greater empathy and compassion - perhaps because they know they might face the same circumstances.

Being a philanthropist doesn't mean necessarily writing a huge check. It can mean mobilizing your community to start asking questions.

Meditation is the simplest process through which you can create harmony between the body, mind, spirit, and nature.

There are two kinds of people. There are those who love you and make your life beautiful. There are those that hurt you and the pain encourages you to be wonderful.

Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.

If you haven’t figured it out by now, the words grace, love, and forgiveness are nearly synonymous.

God needs your obedience

All art is advertising. It stands for a particular point of view. Art that exploits badness is advertising badness.

Life is but a preparation for what there is to come.

Our generation must fulfill the most noble of duties by ensuring the survival of future generations through the most basic of survival mechanisms - adaptation.

Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss!

I am one of the few people I know of who has argued in print that torture may be an ethical necessity in our war on terror.