Compassion is not a popular virtue

It's a great event to get outside and enjoy nature. I find it very exciting no matter how many times I see bald eagles.

Look into your own heart, discover what it is that gives you pain and then refuse, under any circumstance whatsoever, to inflict that pain on anybody else.

Jesus did not spend a great deal of time discoursing about the trinity or original sin or the incarnation, which have preoccupied later Christians. He went around doing good and being compassionate.

Each of the world religions has its own particular genius, its own special insight into the nature and requirements of compassion, and has something unique to teach us.

I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness.

Compassion is not an option. It's the key to our survival.

Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their religion to endorse their ego, their identity.

Religion isn’t about believing things. It's ethical alchemy. It’s about behaving in a way that changes you, that gives you intimations of holiness and sacredness.

I am not interested in the afterlife. Religion is supposed to be about losing your ego, not preserving it eternally in optimum conditions.

Surely it's better to love others, however messy and imperfect the involvement, than to allow one's capacity for love to harden.

She had stayed home and worked hard and a posthumous recognition had eventually followed. Not that Buck hadn't worked hard, sure he did, but in the end the body won't hold up as a work of art.

Work becomes satisfaction when it is in the area of your calling

One, you moved here with your father, which means your a daddy's girl. No girl leaves their mother unless they are.

One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.

If God were like a Star Wars Force linking all consciousness, I supposed I could maybe believe that. But let's just say I'm not going to be running off to India to join an ashram anytime soon.

If your content isn't driving conversation, you're doing it wrong.

I want to see sunrises in the mountains. You never get to see such things enough in a lifetime. I want to see more.

No one likes it, apart from blind people, and I'm sure even they can sense it's profound ugliness as it passes by.

You can run for cover, you can run for help. You can run to your lover, but you can't ever run from yourself.

Saying We will destroy terrorism is about as meaningful as saying: We shall annihilate mockery.