Hospitality is the key to new ideas, new friends, new possibilities. What we take into our lives changes us. Without new people and new ideas, we are imprisoned inside ourselves.

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.

It is sad that in this world people put great merit in what a person has more than what a person is.

Hate brings me to my knees, love gets me on my feet.

I thought I was going to stay at Google, because it was a great place to work.

A letter is a barrier, a reprieve, a charm against the world, an almost infallible method of acting at a distance.

Snowfall is expected to considerably exceed the normal range, both in frequency and quantity.

The first distinction among men, and the first consideration that gave one precedence over another, was doubtless the advantage of beauty.

We can try to kill all that is native, string it up by its hind legs for all to see, but spirit howls and wildness endures.

Ed is very sexy because his emotions are really there - not forced.

Screwing is more enjoyable than drilling bolt holes !.

The magic question is, 'What for?' But art is not for anything. Art is the ultimate goal.