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.

If we cant face our losses, we cant be present either fully to everything that is. When people have cut off or not made peace with some part of themselves, they miss out on other aspects of life.

For every shrill and violent voice that throws itself in front of microphones and cameras in the name of God, there are countless lives of gentleness and good works who will not. We need to see and hear them, as well, to understand the whole story of religion in our world.

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

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

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.

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.