Sometimes you wish you could keep quiet. It's the kind of thing you heard the prophet Jeremiah complain of where he says, "You know God, I didn't want to be a prophet and you made me speak words of condemnation against a people I love deeply. Your word is like a fire burning in my breast."

Does taking the life of the perpetrator return your mom? No.

It makes no sense to invest in [fossil fuel] companies that undermine our future

If you recall the happiest moments in your life, they are all from when you were doing something for somebody else.

Most people would say "Ah, Mahatma Gandhi, what a wonderful man, Mother Teresa, maybe Martin Luther King Jr., Nelson Mandela, Dalai Lama." And when you look at those people it's not the macho, aggressive, successful people, we may envy them, their bank balances and kind of thing, yes and for being successful. But we do not revere them.

You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.

Though wrong gratifies in the moment, good yields its gifts over a lifetime.