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.

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

Tolerance is not really a lived virtue; it’s more of a cerebral ascent.

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.

Structure is something that calms our nature; we know this of toddlers.

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.

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.