To be enlightened is to know that heaven is not "coming." Heaven is here.

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.

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.

...Sunday evenings are heavier than clouds with rain, darker too and often interminable...

A moment in heaven and a lifetime in hell, that’s the story of my life.

Average dies quicker than ever before. Digital doesn't mess around. It's binary.

Isn't it fun to go out on the course and lie in the sun?

Time doth run with calm and silent foot, Shortening my days and thread of vital life.

The sort of commercial parameters of classical music changed after the [World War II] , and the whole industry became more backward-looking.

Capitalism in its imperialistic stage is a system which regards war as a legitimate method for solution of international disputes - a method which is legitimate in fact if not legally so.

I don't have a Wikiquotes page.

Writing or making anything-a poem, a bird feeder, a chocolate cake-has self-respect in it. You're working. You're trying. You're not lying down on the ground, having given up.

If their forces are substantial, prepare for them; if their forces are strong, avoid them.