Prophets are so dangerous because they cry in season and out of season, politely and impolitely, loud and long.

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.

All I have is me, myself and I and we are all getting really tired of each other.

I think most people now listen to different genres when they have different moods. I know I certainly do.

For you teach very clearly by your behaviour how slowly and how meagerly our senses proceed in the investigation of ever inexhaustible nature.

I only do a show when there's somebody I want to talk to.

I feel more mature than most people my age.

Difference between savage and civilized man: one is painted, the other gilded.

If you can’t reduce your argument to a few crisp words and phrases, there’s something wrong with your argument.

Failing to be there when a man wants her is a woman's greatest sin, except to be there when he doesn't want her.

Is it not enough that 'things are cruel and blind'? Must we also be cruel and blind?

Television... is not a substitute for print.