Only by restoring the broken connections can we be healed. Connection is health. And what our society does its best to disguise from us is how ordinary, how commonly attainable, health is. We lose our health -- and create profitable diseases and dependencies -- by failing to see the direct connections between living and eating, eating and working, working and loving.

The world is whole beyond human knowing.

You have to be able to imagine lives that are not yours.

A corporation, essentially, is a pile of money to which a number of persons have sold their moral allegiance.

Only the action that is moved by love for the good at hand has the hope of being responsible and generous.

The Christian gospel is a summons to peace, calling for justice beyond anger, mercy beyond justice, forgiveness beyond mercy, love beyond forgiveness.

To mind being disliked by a woman you don’t desire and are not married to is yet another serious failure of common sense.