God picks you up. You don't pick yourself up. You're the one who knocked you down or even if somebody else knocked you down, your willingness to believe that what they said had value, was your conspiring with them, with their effort to knock you down - I've never been able to get myself up and I've noticed that every time I ask God to pick me up - he does.

Anything having to do with what is happening inside people has political significance to me. That is why I like the term "holistic politics."

Every act of kindness on your part is a boost to your own immune system.

Fill you mind with the meaningless stimuli of a world preoccupied with meaningless things, and it will not be easy to feel peace in your heart.

My father's politics were old-fashioned in the sense that he used to say, all the time, "You've got to fight the system!" But my spiritual beliefs have led me to believe that the fight is the problem.

Your life has purpose as long as you dedicate it to love. It's not what we do but who we are that forms our biggest contribution.

Light is to darkness what love is to fear; in the presence of one the other disappears.