I can't be a pessimist because I'm alive. To be a pessimist means that you have agreed that human life is an academic matter.

It took many years of vomiting up all the filth I’d been taught about myself, and half-believed, before I was able to walk on the earth as though I had a right to be here.

I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.

The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.

It demands great spiritual resilience not to hate the hater whose foot is on your neck, and an even greater miracle of perception and charity not to teach your child to hate.

Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.

Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.

Yes, one can wager war in this world, ape love, torture one’s fellow man, or merely say evil of one’s neighbor while knitting. But, in certain cases, carrying on, merely continuing, is superhuman.

Make your life a magical journey of Life, encountering Life.

The realization of justice is, in the actual state of things, a matter of life or death for society and for civilisation itself.

My career is an open book, but my life is not.

When I met Christ, I felt that I had swallowed sunshine.

It's really good to be here and as I always say, it's really good to be anywhere!

Churches become poor if they become rich and care not for the poor.

One day the great European War will come out of some damned foolish thing in the Balkans (1888).

Allow ourselves to do as Ram Dass said in his delicious phrase "Be Here Now." If you are here now you cannot fall into falsely constructed gender projections.

Generosity is giving until it makes you uncomfortable.