A street full of electric light is a sign of civic failure and is an insulting injury to the soul. Shutting out the night is as disastrous as shutting out the light.

Each day is a lifetime. In the morning we are born. The day lies before us: vast and bright and new.

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that

God help us to live slowly: To move simply: To look softly: To allow emptiness: To let the heart create for us. Amen.

Wars don't happen on battlefields; they go on happening in people's hearts for generations and generations, and the ecological damage is unfathomably complex and dire.

Love a single an additional and you will be satisfied. It really is as easy and as challenging as that.

In order to be truthful we must do more than speak the truth. We must also hear truth, receive truth, search for truth.

Easter is reflecting upon suffering for one thing, but it also reflects upon Jesus and his non-compliance in the face of great authority where he holds to his truth - so there's two stories there.

The most joyous painting is not done for the art world, it is done for the inner world.

I didn't mind my own company as a child; I was happy playing alone in the sandpit.

The cartoonist’s task is not so much to be balanced as to give balance, particularly in situations of disproportionate power relationships such as we see in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

[T]he kingdom of God... is to be a political institution that shall hold sway over all the earth; to which all other governments will be subordinate and by which they will be dominated.

When there is no offense I make no defense.

We think-although of course, now, we very seldom Clearly think- That the other side of War is Peace.

I know all the problems of the schools. They're rigid, they're bureaucratic, they've got a lot of problems. But it's such an important institution, and holds such promise.

I think the most terrifying things I've seen have been created by human beings in reality.

They took each other's advice, opened one book, went over to another, then did not know what to decide when opinions diverged so widely.

There never was and is not likely soon to be a nation of philosophers, nor am I certain it is desirable that there should be.

Technology may create a condition, but the questions are what do we do about ourselves. We better understand ourselves pretty clearly and we better find ways to like ourselves

I always tend to like the characters that I play. I'm convinced that I am this person and I'm OK with whatever they do.

We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves.