In every heart there is an inner room, where we can hold our greatest treasures and our deepest pain.

I just want to write books or give talks which, if I were in the audience or I were the reader, I would appreciate.

I was very much a child of the 1960s. I protested the Vietnam War and grew up in a fairly politicized home. My father was like a cross between William Kunstler and Zorba the Greek. I grew up among left-wing lawyers.

Romance is one of the sacred temples that dot the landscape of life.

I don't like the tendency on the part of so many people today to think that those who don't agree with them are bad. In fact, I find that very dangerous.

Miracles begin when we consider the possibility that there might be another way.

We don't need to fight the forces of chaos so much as we need to restore and revitalize the forces of peace.