A community to be truly community, must have a quality of unselfconsciousness about it.

I love, therefore I am vulnerable.

If it can be verified, we don't need faith... Faith is for that which lies on the other side of reason. Faith is what makes life bearable, with all its tragedies and ambiguities and sudden, startling joys.

Yes! I dare disturb the universe.

I don't know if they're really like everybody else, or if they're able to pretend they are.

If you don't recount your family history, it will be lost. Honor your own stories and tell them too. The tales may not seem very important, but they are what binds families and makes each of us who we are.

Compassion is nothing one feels with the intellect alone. Compassion is particular; it is never general.