For every person who might reject you if you live your truth, there are ten others who will embrace you and welcome you home.

We lack faith in *what* exists within us because we lack faith in *Who* exists within us.

We cannot give what we do not have: We cannot bring peace to the world if we ourselves are not peaceful. We cannot bring love to the world if we ourselves are not loving. Our true gift to ourselves and others lies not in what we have but in who we are.

The right tends to posit that the market fuels social good. The left tends to posit that the government fuels social good. At bottom, democracy claims that citizens drive social good, but there is currently no container for a political force-field that stakes claim to the unbelievable resources now virtually untapped in every man, woman, and child in our society.

My father was a deeply committed humanitarian. He was a fighter for social justice. He was spirited in the deepest sense.

We need to change society's ordering principle from economic to humanitarian values, from money as the bottom line to love as the bottom line.

I think the violence in the world right now is being reflected inside people. And I also believe the violence inside people is being reflected in the world.