Our deepest human need is not material at all. Our deepest need is to be seen.

We are dominated on this planet by a fear-based rather than a love-based thought system.

I believe there is an evolutionary impulse toward good that is etched on every human heart. It is placed there by the hand of God.

The historian Arthur Schlesinger has pointed out that people tend to get interested in politics again every 30 years. The universe moves in cycles of three. The number figures in everything from Pythagoras's theory that the universe is based on three to the Father-the-Son-and-the-Holy- Ghost to the three-sided pyramidal shapes that intersect in the Jewish Star of David. The notion of the mystical three, metaphysically, spiritually, and even politically, is quite interesting to me.

We need love - an awesome love grounded in the evolutionary potential for life on Earth - to become the organizing principle for human society.

Again--nothing you do or think or wish or make is necessary to establish your worth.

Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.