Nature has created us with the capacity to know God, to experience God.

the world has changed: it did not change without your prayers without your faith without your determination to believe in liberation and kindness; without your dancing through the years that had no beat.

I don't require myself or anyone to go beyond what they feel they can do. I just do suggest - for their own eventual happiness - that they go as far as they can. They can usually go much further than they think.

Writing about people helps us to understand them, and understanding them helps us to accept them as part of ourselves.

War will stop when we no longer praise it, or give it any attention at all. Peace will come wherever it is sincerely invited.

War is a dead end, literally. And, what is more, we simply can't afford it. Not morally, and not financially. How long will it take the citizens of the United States, one wonders, to recognize that the house their country bombed in Iraq is the same one they were living in until it was foreclosed?

I'm the most stubborn person I know.