The spiritual path - is simply the journey of living our lives. Everyone is on a spiritual path; most people just don't know it.

If you think humanity can get itself out of all this mess without divine help, then you're not being hopeful - you're hallucinating.

Healing works through a kind of detox: things have got to come up in order to be released. That is true of our personal issues, and also our collective issues. We can't just push the darkness down, pour pink paint over it and then pretend it's not there. We have to look at it, accept that it exists and then release it for healing.

Everything connects to everything; therefore, as we change, the world cannot but change with us.

Gender or skin color does not of itself determine the nature of a person's thinking.

Gandhi said the end is inherent in the means, which means you cannot create any more peace than you yourself have attained. An angry generation will not bring peace.

America is a great country, and we've done a lot of good in the world. But we are a collection of people, not saints. We have our own sins to atone for.