Requiring accountability while also extending your compassion is not the easiest course of action, but it is the most humane, and, ultimately, the safest for the community.

To be forgiven is to be loved

Given the dark fears we feel when we experience loss, nothing is more generous and loving than the willingness to embrace grief in order to forgive. To be forgiven is to be loved.

When you look away from a homeless person, you diminish their humanity and your own.

Denying emotion is not avoiding the high curbs, it's never taking your car out of the garage. It's safe in there, but you'll never go anywhere.

When you judge yourself for needing help, you judge those you are helping. When you attach value to giving help, you attach value to needing help.

Everything changes except the love.

An unrested mind is prone to wander into unfruitful avenues

Your disbelief cures nothing.

My whole philosophy is about playing dress-up.

The one wholly true thought one can hold about the past is that it is not here. To think about it at all is therefore to think about illusions.

If I had a kid, and I had a choice between teaching somebody how to avoid trouble, or teaching them how to get out of it, I'd teach them how to get out of it.

To learn more about science, turn off your electronic device and go outside and look around a bit. Nature is calling you. Go on. The internet will still be here.

Forget about speech problems just saying the words "brain surgery" sucks the air out of a room.

There is no question we have an access stock.

I believe German soldiers are good and decent, and if they did anything wrong it was because of military necessity.