Compassion is a spiritual technology.

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.

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

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.

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

Investing is like Yoga. Body, mind and soul have to be aligned.

Whatever the hell our souls are made of, they are the same.

And then I carefully sealed away my heart...

This long disease, my life.

The demarcation between an art house film and an entertainer has blurred, only because a larger section of the audience has accepted such realistic films.

I believe in evil. It is the property of all those who are certain of truth. Despair and fanaticism are only differing manifestations of evil.

The greatness of Ty Cobb was something that had to be seen, and to see him was to remember him forever.

There are the saints of every day, the 'hidden' saints, a sort of 'middle class of holiness'... to which we can all belong.

If I hear one of my songs by anybody, it's a dream come true every time for me as a songwriter, because I want to write a song, I want to write a song that the world can sing and will always sing.

There seems to be more comedy for comedy's sake