People who believe they are acting with the mandate of God, who see others who don't share their beliefs as inferior in the eyes of God, make dangerous leaders. Just ask Osama Bin Laden.

He had written my mother once that he wanted her to be the first thing he saw every morning and the last thing he ever saw. And that's how it turned out.

We can choose between the future and the past, between reason and ignorance, between true compassion and mere ideology.

The big elephant sitting in the corner is that George W. Bush is simply unqualified for the job. What's his accomplishment? That he's no longer an obnoxious drunk?

Dad was also a deeply, unabashedly religious man... , But he never made the fatal mistake of so many politicians - wearing his faith on his sleeve to gain political advantage.

Now, ignorance is one thing, ignorance can be cured. But many of the Republican leaders opposing this research know better.

I admire the fact that the central core of Buddhist teaching involves mindfulness and loving kindness and compassion.