I had been a journalist in Europe and then went to divinity school in the early 1990s, and came out as somebody who had the perspective of a journalist and was now also theologically educated.

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

The things that go wrong for you have a lot of potential to become part of your gift to the world.

Fear usually looks like anger.

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 had been a journalist in Europe and then went to divinity school in the early 1990s, and came out as somebody who had the perspective of a journalist and was now also theologically educated.

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