Children content with parents who are physically close, tantalizingly so, but mentally elsewhere.

We expect more from technology and less from each other.

Technology proposes itself as the architect of our intimacies.

The idea that we can be exactly what the other desires is a powerful fantasy.

A sacred space is not a place to hide out. It is a place where we recognize ourselves and our commitments.

To understand desire, one needs language and flesh.

Discovering an inner history requires listening – and often not to the first story told.

It's too late to leave the future to the futurists.

I miss those days even though I wasn't alive.

The idea of being vulnerable leaves a lot of room for choice. There is always room to be less foldable, more evil.

One of the emotional affordances of digital communication is that one can always hide behind deliberated nonchalance.

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

We say the United States is a rich country, but how can we be rich when millions of poor American children go to bed hungry?

You have your thoughts and I have mine. This is the fact and you can't change it even if you kill me.

I'm very bad with music. I don't know any new music. I've listened to the same 10 or 12 albums my whole life.

My very first magazine cover was the National Enquirer.

There is no association richer than the companionship of husband and wife.

If Russia had the same military power that America did, earth would be called Russia.

Meditation, in all its forms and traditions, is an invitation to listen, to open, to quietly enlist the courage to be touched and formed by life.

Silence is a beautiful fresh water tank to raise the trout of thought.

Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview.