We are what we are because of the hard work, insights and achievements of countless others.

It's a great event to get outside and enjoy nature. I find it very exciting no matter how many times I see bald eagles.

Look into your own heart, discover what it is that gives you pain and then refuse, under any circumstance whatsoever, to inflict that pain on anybody else.

Jesus did not spend a great deal of time discoursing about the trinity or original sin or the incarnation, which have preoccupied later Christians. He went around doing good and being compassionate.

Each of the world religions has its own particular genius, its own special insight into the nature and requirements of compassion, and has something unique to teach us.

I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness.

Compassion is not an option. It's the key to our survival.

Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their religion to endorse their ego, their identity.

Religion isn’t about believing things. It's ethical alchemy. It’s about behaving in a way that changes you, that gives you intimations of holiness and sacredness.

I am not interested in the afterlife. Religion is supposed to be about losing your ego, not preserving it eternally in optimum conditions.

Surely it's better to love others, however messy and imperfect the involvement, than to allow one's capacity for love to harden.

Let someone else be the most powerful country, make ours the most peaceful country.

I think it's our obligation to play, Honor. It's just a game, so can I kiss you?”"Yes.""Plan on one minute in heaven, Honor." A split second later his lips were on hers.

The secret to discovery is to never believe existing facts.

He was sixty years old

Propensities and principles must be reconciled by some means.

To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.

Perhaps the gravest under-publicized atrocity in the world is the persecution of Christians.

All those moments, those memories. Everything that we are, compressed in just two or three kilos of paper — the weight of a human heart.

Me, I've concentrated on music pretty much to the exclusion of other things.

The only good Indian is a dead Indian