What the world need is people who have come alive.

Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and go do it. Because what the world needs is more people who have come alive

In the stillness of the quiet, if we listen, we can hear the whisper of the heart giving strength to weakness, courage to fear, hope to despair.

Do not be silent; there is no limit to the power that may be released through you.

There are two questions that we have to ask ourselves. The first is 'Where am I going?' and the second is 'Who will go with me?'

Community cannot for long feed on itself; it can only flourish with the coming of others from beyond, their unknown and undiscovered brothers.

It cannot be denied that too often the weight of the Christian movement has been on the side of the strong and the powerful and against the weak and oppressed-this, despite the gospel.

Love has no awareness of merit or demerit; it has no scale... Love loves; this is its nature.

Whatever may be the tensions and the stresses of a particular day, there is always lurking close at hand the trailing beauty of forgotten joy or unremembered peace.

Jesus rejected hatred because he saw that hatred meant death to the mind, death to the spirit, and death to communion with his Father. He affirmed life; and hatred was the great denial.

During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism.

We can't deliver folks from their pits, but we can sure get in there with them until God does.

Spending time outdoors makes you feel great.

Anything you believe you have to do or become before you can be free is a denial and distraction from the truth that you are already free.

The most important thing for anyone, I think, is to be engaged, whether you're an artist or a journalist is to be engaged in the process at some level.

If the government can't get the economy moving again, they have a lot of fundamental problems.

Since there were others, a long time ago, who were kind enough to give me a hard time and allow me to study with them, I try and express the same Buddhist courtesy.

I think that there is a bias in the current literary climate, which is not only very Western but very male.

Just as it's painful to hear any woman talk about sexual assault, whether true or not, it's just as painful to watch my friend and mentor go through this.

And so tonight we're going to make the lie true, and when that's done, I'll bring the liquor back here and we'll get drunk together, here, tonight, in this place that death has come into...

Heroes don't need to talk about what they did.