A life of value is not a series of great things well done; it is a series of small things consciously done.

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.

Fail early, fail often.

Some memories are realities and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.

A dream is what makes people love life even when it is painful.

The Charter of the United Nations expresses the noblest aspirations of man.

Contrology is complete coordination of body, mind, and spirit.

The Lord has loved me so much: we must love everyone...we must be compassionate!

I no longer care about the financial system. I gave them my roadmap. OK? Thanks, bye. I've no idea what's going on. I'm disconnected. I'm totally disengaged.

If I wasn't a singer, I'd be a bloodclaat revolutionary.

The singer alone does not make a song, there has to be someone who hears. -Broken Song

Caring about what you are doing is considered either unimportant or taken for granted.