My favorite topping is one that a lot of people don't like. I love anchovies.

Wholeness does not mean perfection: it means embracing brokenness as an integral part of life.

Community is a place where the connections felt in our hearts make themselves known in the bonds between people, and where the tuggings and pullings of those bonds keep opening our hearts.

I now know myself to be a person of weakness and strength, liability and giftedness, darkness and light. I now know that to be whole means to reject none of it but to embrace all of it.

One of the hardest things we must do sometimes is to be present to another person's pain without trying to "fix" it, to simply stand respectfully at the edge of that person's mystery and misery.

We are here not only to transform the world but also to be transformed.

Self-care is never a selfish act - it is only good stewardship of the only gift I have, the gift I was put on earth to offer others.

Before you tell your life what you intend to do with it, listen for what it intends to do with you.

Community doesn't just create abundance - community is abundance. If we could learn that equation from the world of nature, the human world might be transformed.

At its deepest level, I think teaching is about bringing people into communion with each other, with yourself as the teacher, and with the subject you are teaching.

Before I can tell my life what I want to do with it, I must listen to my life telling me who I am.

The most possessive part of Conall didn't want another male to even look at Rhea.

Is there innocence in ignorance? And if there is, do we tolerate other for their innocence's sake?

Let everywritertell hisownliesThat's freedomof thepress.

I love studying how people are. Not just what they're saying, but how they are, what they're doing.

I now had enough faith not only to believe there were answer, but to feel certain that those answers would become apparent at some point in the future.

Society has low standards for what is considered good or great music.

There was a saying around MGM: "Norma Shearer got the productions, Greta Garbo supplied the art, and Joan Crawford made the money to pay for both".

To the socialist no nation is free whose national existence is based upon the enslavement of another people, for to him colonial peoples, too, are peoples, and, as such, parts of the national state.

It's okay to not know completely what you want or what you should be doing and to stumble a little bit.

The separation of powers is about legislative powers. It isn't about discussion or words.