To see the other side, to defend another people, not despite your tradition but because of it, is the heart of pluralism

Show me a religion that doesn't care about compassion. Show me a religion that doesn't care about stewardship of the environment. Show me a religion that doesn't care about hospitality.

We have to build bridges that are stronger than the bombs that other people might throw

When thousands of people discover that their story is also someone else's story, they have the chance to write a new story together.

I thought about the meaning of pluralism in a world where the forces that seek to divide us are strong. I came to one conclusion: We have to save each other. It’s the only way to save ourselves.

One of the best ways of showing pluralism in action is for people to do service together, and that has so many benefits.

What we pluralists have to do is to say to the people standing on the faith line, particularly the young ones, no, pluralism is the wish of the creator. It is the greatest opportunity for humanity.

I as a Muslim believe deeply in the differences that are within Islam. But I also take seriously the idea that we have to come to know one another.

A social entrepreneur is somebody who knows how to make an idea reality.

What I'm looking for is not out there, it is in me.

...shiny trinkets and frivolous spending make people forget what world they're living in.

Not Carnegie, Vanderbilt, and Astor together could have raised money enough to buy a quarter share in my little dogs.

Criticism is the forerunner of divorce, the cultivator of rebellion, sometimes an agent that leads to failure.

Salad freshens without enfeebling and fortifies without irritating.

We have to fight terror in one voice, rising above politics. That is when the common people will feel secure.

I believe that love is the choice we make to raise ourselves and others to the highest planes of existence.

Nothing comes from violence and nothing ever could, for all those born beneath an angry star, lest we forget how fragile we are.

Watch me, diamonds shining looking like I robbed Liberace.

Experimental psychology itself has, it is true, now and again suffered relapse into a metaphysical treatment of its problems.