We become compassionate not from altruism which denies the self for the sake of the other, but from the insight that sees and feels one is the other.

The most powerful moral influence is example.

If we take the world’s enduring religions at their best, we discover the distilled wisdom of the human race.

I am profoundly moved and persuaded by the near-death experience.

All -isms end up in schisms.

We all carry it within us: supreme strength, the fullness of wisdom, unquenchable joy. It is never thwarted, and cannot be destroyed.

God is defined by Jesus but not confined to Jesus.

The object of pilgrimage is not rest and recreation – to get away from it all. To set out on a pilgrimage is to throw down a challenge to everyday life.

At the center of the religious life is a peculiar kind of joy, the prospect of a happy ending that blossoms from necessarily painful ordeals, the promise of human difficulties embraced and overcome.

Beware of the differences that blind us to the unity that binds us.

Poetry is a special use of language that opens onto the real. The business of the poet is truth telling, which is why in the Celtic tradition no one could be a teacher unless he or she was a poet.

Once exposed, a secret loses all its power.

But Aristotle's philosophy was the intellect's Declaration of Independence.

Of all the movies I've done in my life, the one where I play a crazy awful psycho woman finds me my husband.

We all have our demons, even if we say we don't.

Storytime is over, Rock. Every time you want to 'bring it,' because it belongs to me, I'm just going to take it!.

I get a little heated when I talk about the past. But I wanted to be clear - I'm not mad at anybody - not anymore.

Swearing was invented as a compromise between running away and fighting.

Business people have a a good view of what's happening internally in countries, and they can be a positive force.

Women need not take up with mean things, since (if they are not wanting to themselves) they are capable of the best.

What wouldst thou do, old man? Think'st thou that duty shall have dread to speak When power to flattery bows?