It cannot be denied that too often the weight of the Christian movement has been on the side of the strong and the powerful and against the weak and oppressed-this, despite the gospel.

Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and go do it. Because what the world needs is more people who have come alive

In the stillness of the quiet, if we listen, we can hear the whisper of the heart giving strength to weakness, courage to fear, hope to despair.

Do not be silent; there is no limit to the power that may be released through you.

There are two questions that we have to ask ourselves. The first is 'Where am I going?' and the second is 'Who will go with me?'

Community cannot for long feed on itself; it can only flourish with the coming of others from beyond, their unknown and undiscovered brothers.

Love has no awareness of merit or demerit; it has no scale... Love loves; this is its nature.

Whatever may be the tensions and the stresses of a particular day, there is always lurking close at hand the trailing beauty of forgotten joy or unremembered peace.

Jesus rejected hatred because he saw that hatred meant death to the mind, death to the spirit, and death to communion with his Father. He affirmed life; and hatred was the great denial.

During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism.

In whatever sense this year is a new year for you, may the moment find you eager and unafraid, ready to take it by the hand with joy and gratitude.

I don’t want to think about things like normal and safe, things I can’t have.

Literature is a cake with many toys baked inside--and even if you find them all, if you don't enjoy the path that leads you to them, it will be a hollow accomplishment.

If you want to help people, if you care, go to the cities. The city is where the pain is the greatest - and the cities are a hell of a lot of fun if you like art, movies and plays.

Never take direction for your personal life from a crowd.

Governing a large state is like boiling a small fish.

It is useless to deny that, unless one has a genius for imparting knowledge, teaching is a drudgery.

In fact, many nations currently refuse to support embryonic stem cell research of any kind.

You've got to find what you love.

Initially, I studied philosophy, because it claimed to give you answers to the meaning of existence, but it didnt: It was basically a semantics game.

I love potatoes - they're my favorite food.