We are living in a period of commerical globalization. What we really need is spiritual globalization.

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.

Maybe the difference between first marriage and second marriage is that the second time at least you know you are gambling.

Before, singing was my life, my vocal chords used to lead the way. Now, I'm in-charge.

There is too much repression and suppression in schools.

Could it be that by protecting our kids from unhappiness as children, we’re depriving them of happiness as adults?

Every successful person I know starts before they feel ready.

The Beltway is waking up to the realities of Prsident Obam's budget plan, which taxes, spends, and borrows as far as the eye can see.

I will do Dancing with the Stars when my career dips.

I think is about confidence. Is about doing the right things. Is about being healthy. Is not about if I want to work or if I don't want to work. Is about if I can work or if I can't work.

Even in the midst of devastation, something within us always points the way to freedom.

I did not plan to have such a career in the fashion world. All that I wanted, was to have ten kids and raise them!