Precisely because of the greatness of God, we don't have to be great at all. Just in awe.

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.

What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities.

But let the past as nothing be. For the future my view is that the fight must go on.

When you come to Christ, you have to give up all the other gods.

Bragging about what a good deal you got is one of the many great art forms that my people, the Jews, have introduced to American culture.

People in general are not interested in paying extra for increased safety. At the beginning seat belts cost $200 and nobody bought them.

There were [in 21] all those times in my life that I didn't know this was going to happen. I didn't know if anybody was going to care about our music.

Every year the hunters shot cows and horses and family pets and each other. And unbelievably, they sometimes shot themselves, perhaps in a psychotic episode where they mistook themselves for dinner

I don't keep up with the Joneses, I am the Joneses.

Build a wardrobe rather than focusing on trends.

To be religious is not to feel, but to be.