Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it's at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember you have another hand: The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others.

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.

The greatest sin is to be unconscious.

An inconvenience is an unrecognized opportunity.

Next door to Ethiopia spreading out along the strategic Red Sea coastline is Eritrea, a relatively new country, and a place that few Americans seem to fully understand.

I have to go back to vinyl every once in awhile, even if my kids don't want to hear it. I'm much more likely to be listening to Wilco or the Avett Brothers.

Everybody's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's a really easy way: stop participating in it.

If you wish to be brothers, let the arms fall from your hands. One cannot love while holding offensive arms.

The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.

Grieve only if you have committed a sin, but even in this case do not grieve too much, otherwise you may become desperate.