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.

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

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

[Kindness] is a most edifying form of instant gratification.

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.

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

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