We are not loved because we are valued; we are valued because we are loved.

The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love.

In our time all it takes for evil to flourish is for a few good men to be a little wrong and have a great deal of power, and for the vast majority of their fellow citizens to remain indifferent.

Diversity may be the hardest thing for a society to live with, and perhaps the most dangerous thing for a society to be without.

I love the recklessness of faith. First you leap, and then you grow wings.

The cause of violence is not ignorance. It is self-interest. Only reverance can restrain violence - reverance for human life and the environment.

Love measures our stature: the more we love, the bigger we are. There is no smaller package in all the world than that of a man all wrapped up in himself.

There is nothing anti-intellectual in the leap of faith, for faith is not believing without proof but trusting without reservation.

To show compassion for an individual without showing concern for the structures of society that make him an object of compassion is to be sentimental rather than loving.

Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible.

The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love. We can never really love anybody with whom we never laugh. Love is in the giver, not the gift.

No amount of high fashion can make up for a lifetime of poor posture.

When you open your mind, you let happiness in.

Life is like a curve, horizontally or vertically, we are at origin point

God dislikes evil, and no happiness can be built on hate. Love one another as brothers.

I recognize no rights but human rights - I know nothing of men's rights and women's rights.

Success is a combination of effort, talent and hard work. There's got to be hard work and mental toughness. It's not just one thing that gets you there it's an accumulation of things

Excesses are essentially gestures. It is easy to be extremely cruel, magnanimous, humble or self-sacrificing when we see ourselves as actors in a performance.

I had to agonize over my selection since our music is so rich and all the above plus many others have contributed.

Presentationally, Bill Clinton is a US President to die for. The truth is, far too many have.

Always half an hour a day where it's just me and my yoga mat.