Being intellectually hospitable is a virtue that I bring into the interview space.

I dont accept the idea that there are two sides to any issue. I think that the middle ground is to be found within most of us.

In many ways, religion comes from the same place in us that art comes from. The language of the human heart if poetry

Compassion is a spiritual technology.

Einstein believed deeply that science should transcend national and ethnic divisions. But he watched physicists and chemists become the purveyors of weapons of mass destruction in the early 20th century.

Silence is an endangered quantity in our time... Silence, embraced, stuns with its presence, its pregnant reality—a reality that does not negate reason and argument, but puts them in their place.

Depression can kill you. It can also be a spiritually enriching experience. It's really an important part of my theology now and my spirituality that life is not perfect, and I grew up wanting it to be and thinking that if it wasn't, I could make it that way, and I had to acknowledge that I had all kinds of flaws and sadnesses and problems.