Human beings who blind themselves to human need make themselves less human.

It is not because we have value that we are loved, but because we are loved that we have value. Our value is a gift, not an achievement.

I'm not OK, you're not OK-and that's OK.

Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible.

It is a mistake to look to the Bible to close a discussion; the Bible seeks to open one.

Fear destroys intimacy. It distances us from each other; or makes us cling to each other, which is the death of freedom.... Only love can create intimacy, and freedom too, for when all hearts are one, nothing else has to be one--neither clothes nor age; neither sex nor sexual preference; race nor mind-set.

It's so much easier to beat your breast than to stick your neck out.