He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.

We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.

Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.

Prayer cannot bring water to parched fields, or mend a broken bridge, or rebuild a ruined city; but prayer can water an arid soul, mend a broken heart, and rebuild a weakened will.

Remember that there is meaning beyond absurdity. Know that every deed counts, that every word is power...Above all, remember that you must build your life as if it were a work of art.

In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty - all are responsible.

When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.

The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.

Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.

When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.

Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.

My father always told me: 'Give somebody a hand and he'll take an arm.

Our strategy is to destroy the enemy from within, to conquer him through himself.

Don't use Buddhism to become a Buddhist. Use Buddhism to become better at whatever else in your life you are doing already.

I believe without any doubt that you are the finest generation this Church has ever had.

Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.

Humor [in a scene] is not jokes. It is that attitude toward being alive without which you would long ago have jumped off the 59th Street Bridge.

The process of writing a poem represents work done on the self of the poet, in order to make form.

Setting out rules for waging war (the Geneva Convention).

I listen to a lot of old music, like Joni Mitchell and David Bowie.

Friends are the angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.