Our self-expression is meant to be a manifestation of the silence of our hearts.

Sustainability is another word for justice, for what is just is sustainable and what is unjust is not.

To recover a spiritual tradition in which creation, and the study of creation, matters would be to inaugurate new possibilities between spirituality and science that would shape the paradigms for culture, its institution, and its people.

I turn a lot of stuff down - big, big movies, the kind I wouldn't want to go to the cinema to see.

What is of most moment of compassion is not feelings of pity but feelings of togetherness.

A lot of people want to see this idealized version of heroism, all pretty and perfect, and I'm not interested in playing the goody-goody hero at all.

I enjoy a four-seasonal climate and wide-open spaces, so being on an island 2,500 miles into the South Pacific made me feel a little claustrophobic.