You are not going to be perfect every day. It’s about turning up the next day and doing it again.

Intelligence alone does not get us where we need to go or even necessarily where we want to go. For that, the human creature must exercise harder-won capacities of wisdom, and wise action.

Compassion is a piece of vocabulary that could change us if we truly let it sink into the standards to which we hold ourselves and others.

The things that go wrong for you have a lot of potential to become part of your gift to the world.

Silence is an endangered quantity in our time... Silence, embraced, stuns with its presence, its pregnant reality—a reality that does not negate reason and argument, but puts them in their place.

I dont accept the idea that there are two sides to any issue. I think that the middle ground is to be found within most of us.

You can disagree with another person's opinions. You can disagree with their doctrines. You can't disagree with their experience.

What a liberating thing to realize that our problems are probably our richest sources for rising to the ultimate virtue of compassion.

Compassion is a spiritual technology.

How we carry what has gone wrong for us is essential to being at home in ourselves, and present to the world with all of its failings.

In many ways, religion comes from the same place in us that art comes from. The language of the human heart if poetry

The supreme happiness of life consists in the conviction that one is loved

If something is to stay in the memory it must be burned in: only that which never ceases hurting stays in the memory.

Evangelism is not a calling reserved exclusively for the clergy. I believe one of the greatest priorities of the church today is to mobilize the laity to do the work of evangelism.

Perfection is not something you strive for. Perfection is in the eyes of the beholder. Perfection is a state of grace, of peace of serenity, a moment as fleeting as a smile.

Sometimes people who feel powerless, they come to bother their own kids, or they come to bother children.

I mean it’s never a problem making out with Nina Dobrev, I mean that’s always really cool!

What I'd like to do is be able to work with Democrats to reform current entitlement programs for future generations, grandfathering all the grandparents.

You must choose a road for yourself.

Being seen as the best striker in Europe doesn't spur me on-it's helping my team to success. That's my only aim. I'm not a machine.

I wish I never fell so deep in love with you and now it ain't no way we can be friends.