When you are kind to others, it not only changes you, it changes the world.

There are some things we should feel guilty about, but the guilt feelings should attach to the deed, not to the doer.

History is written by winners, so most history books are about people who win.

If that were God's plan, it's a bad bargain; I don't want to have to deal with a God like that...My sense is God and I came to an accommodation with each other a couple of decades ago, where he's gotten used to the things that I'm not capable of and I've come to terms with things he's not capable of...and we care very much about each other.

We do ourselves and others a disservice when we make old age something to be feared...The longer we live, the more life we possess.

Everything that God created is potentially holy, and our task as humans is to find that holiness in seemingly unholy situations. When we can do this, we will have learned to nurture our souls.

Our inability to see the beauty doesn't suggest in the slightest that beauty is not there. Rather, it suggests that we are not looking carefully enough or with broad enough perspective to see the beauty.