We don't change as we get older - we just get to be more of what we've always been.

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.

In the end, if we don't have God we don't have anything other than an end.

The only thing that will be remembered about my enemies after they're dead is the nasty things I've said about them.

I strongly believe that journalism is one of the most noble professions, because without an informed world, and without an informed society, we are weak, we are weak.

That's the nature of sport, if you look at how Europe has performed they have found a way to win but golf is cyclical and there's not much between the teams.

I'd rather stay here with all the madmen than perish with the sadmen roaming free.

The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.

If we do not end war - war will end us. Everybody says that, millions of people believe it, and nobody does anything.

Discouragement itself is a form of pride.

That's the good part of having my past follow me, is that sometimes some of that stuff can help.

Americans wanted to settle all our difficulties with Russia and then go to the movies and drink Coke.