What a liberating thing to realize that our problems are probably our richest sources for rising to the ultimate virtue of compassion.

Intelligence alone does not get us where we need to go or even necessarily where we want to go. For that, the human creature must exercise harder-won capacities of wisdom, and wise action.

Compassion is a piece of vocabulary that could change us if we truly let it sink into the standards to which we hold ourselves and others.

The things that go wrong for you have a lot of potential to become part of your gift to the world.

You are not going to be perfect every day. It’s about turning up the next day and doing it again.

Silence is an endangered quantity in our time... Silence, embraced, stuns with its presence, its pregnant reality—a reality that does not negate reason and argument, but puts them in their place.

I dont accept the idea that there are two sides to any issue. I think that the middle ground is to be found within most of us.

You can disagree with another person's opinions. You can disagree with their doctrines. You can't disagree with their experience.

Compassion is a spiritual technology.

How we carry what has gone wrong for us is essential to being at home in ourselves, and present to the world with all of its failings.

In many ways, religion comes from the same place in us that art comes from. The language of the human heart if poetry

I've found that one of the most important things in life is to learn how to forgive yourself.

If you combine the suffering’s great color palette you will find happiness as well.

Lloyd George could not see a belt without hitting below it.

Occupy provided me a lens through which to see systemic discrimination.

I believe the Times is a great newspaper, but a profoundly fallible one.

She sensed it, saw my eyes wet with tears, and only then must have discovered I was no longer the man I had been, and I endured her glance with a courage I never thought I had.

I value my health and my happiness. And I've realized exercise can give me both of those things.

Love...., ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.

It is very grand to die in harness, but it is very pleasant to have the tight straps unbuckled and the heavy collar lifted from the neck and shoulders.

Democracies succeed or fail based on their journalism.