When we love children, we acknowledge by our every action that they are not property, that they have rights - that we respect and uphold their rights.

The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon by forces outside our control.

When we face pain in relationships our first response is often to sever bonds rather than to maintain commitment.

Isolation and loneliness are central causes of depression and despair.

Both men and women remain in dysfunctional, loveless relationships when it is materially opportune.

Giving generously in romantic relationships, and in all other bonds, means recognizing when the other person needs our attention. Attention is an important resource.

When angels speak of love they tell us it is only by loving that we enter an earthly paradise. They tell us paradise is our home and love our true destiny.

Those of us who have already chosen to embrace a love ethic, know that when we let our light shine, we draw to us and are drawn to other bearers of light. We are not alone.

Society's collective fear of love must be faced if we are to lay claim to a love ethic that can inspire us and give us the courage to make necessary changes.

We cannot know love if we remain unable to surrender our attachment to power, if any feeling of vulnerability strikes terror in our hearts. Lovelessness torments.

There can be no love without justice. Until we live in a culture that no only respects but also upholds basic civil rights for children, most children will not know love.

Seeing a miracle will inspire you, but knowing you are a miracle will change you.

Disruptors don't have to discover something new

A busybody's work is never done.

For a colonized people the most essential value, because the most concrete, is first and foremost the land: the land which will bring them bread and, above all, dignity.

Good travel books are novels at heart.

[The consumer is] the supreme mover of economic order... for whom all goods are made and towards whom all economic activity is directed.

When someone asks me, 'What do you do?' under my breath I want to say, 'Ask my f--king bank account what I do,'

If a man is at heart just, then in so far is he God; the safety of God, the immortality of God, the majesty of God do enter into that man with justice.

Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?

The road to salvation is through truth.