You've done the bourgeois thing, perhaps, but let's not call that love.

What we give, we will receive, and what we withhold will be withheld from us.

Think of one person who you are tempted for any reason to withhold love from, and pray for their happiness. In that moment your pain will stop.

The U.S. incarcerates more of its people than any nation in the world, or any nation in history.

Judaism, Christianity, and I'm sure other religions also, are having to deal with the fact that they may or may not have lived up at all times to the injunctions of their own mystical center. For instance, when I went to Sunday school, I remember learning more about Jewish history than about God. So, once again, that doesn't mean there's anything wrong with the Jewish religion, it just means that sometimes people are not fed the mystical food - the spiritual food - of their own religious background.

Cynicism is just an excuse for not helping.

You have to make a space in your heart, in your mind and in your life itself for authentic human connection.