How sad it is that we give up on people who are just like us.

We're all on a journey - each one of us. And if we can be sensitive to the person who happens to be our neighbor, that, to me, is the greatest challenge as well as the greatest pleasure.

We all have different gifts, so we all have different ways of saying to the world who we are.

It's not the honors and not the titles and not the power that is of ultimate importance. It's what resides inside.

The older I get, the more convinced I am that the space between people who are trying their best to understand each other is hallowed ground.

I believe that appreciation is a holy thing--that when we look for what's best in a person we happen to be with at the moment, we're doing what God does all the time. So in loving and appreciating our neighbor, we're participating in something sacred.

Who we are in the present includes who we were in the past.