Everything we do seeds the future. No action is an empty one.

Darkness deserves gratitude. It is the alleluia point at which we learn to understand that all growth does not take place in the sunlight.

Beware the religion that turns you against another one. It's unlikely that it's really religion at all.

Hope is not a matter of waiting for things outside of us to get better. It is about getting better inside about what is going on outside.

We talk religion in a world that worships the bread but does not distribute it, that practices ritual rather than righteousness, that confesses but does not repent.

Grief is a sign that we loved something more than ourselves. . . . Grief makes us worthy to suffer with the rest of the world.

Compassion makes no distinction between friends and enemies, neighbors and outsiders, compatriots and foreigners. Compassion is the gate to human community.

When souls really touch, it is forever. Then space and time disappear, and all that remains is the consciousness that we are not alone in life.

Compassion is not sympathy. Compassion is mercy. It is a commitment to take responsibility for the suffering of others.

Oppressors do not get to be oppressors in a single sweep. They manage it because little by little, we make them that. We overlook too much in the beginning and wonder why we lost control in the end.

Compassion is the ability to understand how difficult it is for people to be the best of what they want to be at all times.

An effective Board can connect all the right dots well.

You don't stop laughing when you grow old, you grow old when you stop laughing.

Film is a collaborative business: bend over.

A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.

I did want to acknowledge and confirm the fact that my son does, indeed, have an autism diagnosis.

The people of Israel are entitled, as is any other nation, to live in peace and safety.

Min­i­mal­ism is about cre­at­ing com­plete har­mony and not about making simple.

I think I would abolish schools which systematically inculcate sectarian beliefs.

Our opponents see an America in which every day is April 15, tax day. Well, we see an America in which every day is the Fourth of July.

The gospel shows a God far more holy than the legalist can bear, yet far more merciful than a humanist can conceive