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.

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.

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.

An authentic spirituality does not cater to culture; it calls culture to accountability.

Fettered feet in the presence of friends is better than living in a garden with strangers.

There is nothing so stupid as an educated man if you get off the thing that he was educated in.

Never follow the crowd....Until and unless you're crossing the road...

I think I always have been someone who likes to push at the edges of things, looking for something different.

The trend towards pure art betrays not arrogance, as is often thought, but modesty. Art that has rid itself of human pathos is a thing without consequence.

One of the main things we have been looking at is, how can we get a robot to think about situations it's never seen before?

The Lord doesn't like us to be dead. Be alive. Sometimes I dance to the glory of the Lord, because He said so.

You never have a friend all figured out. Just when you think you know what makes them tick, they tock.

Education is no longer thought of as a preparation for adult life, but as a continuing process of growth and development from birth until death.

The shortest way out of Manchester is notoriously a bottle of Gordon's gin.