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

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.

Kindness is an everyday byproduct of all the great virtues.

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

Compassion also brings us into the territory of mystery - encouraging us not just to see beauty, but perhaps also to look for the face of God in the moment of suffering, in the face of a stranger, in the face of the vibrant religious other.

If God is God, we cant be afraid of what we can learn.