Beauty scatters the seeds of hope in us.

Anger is not bad. Anger can be a very positive thing, the thing that moves us beyond the acceptance of evil.

A bifurcation of loyalties that requires religious to put canon law above civil law and moral law puts us in a situation where the keepers of religion may themselves become one of the greatest dangers to the credibility - and the morality - of the church itself.

Hope is not a matter of waiting for things outside of us to get better. It is about getting better inside about what is going on outside.

Life is a series of lessons, some of them obvious, some of them not. We learn as we go that dreams end, that plans get changed, that promises get broken, that our idols disappoint us.

To be enlightened is to know that heaven is not "coming." Heaven is here.

Precisely because of the greatness of God, we don't have to be great at all. Just in awe.