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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Kindness is an everyday byproduct of all the great virtues.

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