Imagine how happy, how holy, life would be if we ever really learn to see beauty.

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.

Tanacity is the dance within the art of opportunity

Do you think there could be a universe next door?

They are able who think they are able.

It's a sad and stupid thing to have to proclaim yourself a revolutionary just to be a decent man.

I'm not old-fashioned when it comes to dating, but there's something nice about a guy pulling out a girl's chair and opening the door for her, even if it's just in the beginning.

Fighting is easy to understand. You just hit the guy as hard as you can.

I really think I am a nice person. [But] this is not going to be an election on niceness. This is going to be an election on competence.

The proliferation of support groups suggests to me that too many Americans are growing up in homes that do not contain a grandmoth.

Little lies are very dangerous, because there are so many of them, and because each one of them scours upon the character as diamond-pointed.

Tomorrow," Minho added. "Somehow, some way.