What a liberating thing to realize that our problems are probably our richest sources for rising to the ultimate virtue of compassion.

You are not going to be perfect every day. It’s about turning up the next day and doing it again.

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.

You can disagree with another person's opinions. You can disagree with their doctrines. You can't disagree with their experience.

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

Compassion is a piece of vocabulary that could change us if we truly let it sink into the standards to which we hold ourselves and others.

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.