We must learn to pray out of our weaknesses so that God can become our strength.

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.

Tommie Aaron taught me how to have a good attitude, to be easy going and not get uptight.

When it comes to 'Glee, ' I feel like I've been in a relationship, and now I can mingle a bit.

When you have a child you're no longer the star of the movie.

Door’s locked,” he said. “And we have unfinished business.

It is necessary to DARE what must be attempted.

I could do a franchise for the end of everything. 'The End of Dogs,' 'The End of Cats.'

You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.

Football is the best, is the biggest sport in the world.

I do not like being famous. I like being normal.