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

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.

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.

The hajj is one of the five essential practices of Islam; when they make the pilgrimage to Mecca, Muslims ritually act out the central principles of their faith.

Self-employed people work where they live. Entrepreneurs live where they work.

If you escape from a necessary fight, pray you will live long enough to wait for and deal with the same challenge that must be settled.

Sometimes it’s just a matter of letting go and getting on with life.

I'm just going to go out there knowing my teammates are depending on me to get the job done. I've got to go out and get it done, no letting down.

A man does not have to feel less than human to realize his sin; oppositely, he has to realize that he gets no special vindication for his sin.

In magic, today as always, the effect is what counts. The method or methods used are always purely secondary.

If you aren't unhappy sometimes you don't know how to be happy.

The truth is the most important part of being impeccable with your word...Only the truth will set us free.

War is the suicide of humanity because it kills the heart and kills love.

I should be extremely sorry to find that in a fictitious proceeding, instituted for the more easy attaining of justice, different rules were to obtain in the different Courts.