If it is not tempered by compassion, and empathy, reason can lead men and women into a moral void.

It's a great event to get outside and enjoy nature. I find it very exciting no matter how many times I see bald eagles.

Look into your own heart, discover what it is that gives you pain and then refuse, under any circumstance whatsoever, to inflict that pain on anybody else.

Jesus did not spend a great deal of time discoursing about the trinity or original sin or the incarnation, which have preoccupied later Christians. He went around doing good and being compassionate.

Each of the world religions has its own particular genius, its own special insight into the nature and requirements of compassion, and has something unique to teach us.

I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness.

Compassion is not an option. It's the key to our survival.

Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their religion to endorse their ego, their identity.

Religion isn’t about believing things. It's ethical alchemy. It’s about behaving in a way that changes you, that gives you intimations of holiness and sacredness.

I am not interested in the afterlife. Religion is supposed to be about losing your ego, not preserving it eternally in optimum conditions.

Surely it's better to love others, however messy and imperfect the involvement, than to allow one's capacity for love to harden.

Stop wasting time and start living.

The German people have no idea of the extent to which they have to be gulled in order to be led.

I love newspapers. I've worked on newspapers, all my life. I've always loved it.

Error, when she retraces her steps, has farther to go before she can arrive at truth than ignorance.

But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.

Great patience is called for on the hard path that I have entered on.

You know why I'm pulling your leg? Because I can't touch it from where I am.

I firmly believe that we're all good people, but sometimes it's hard to understand how to do good.

The youthful heart is ready to believe what it wishes will happen.