God knows it is emotionally satisfying to be righteous with that righteousness that nourishes itself on the blood of sinners. But God also knows that what is emotionally satisfying can be spiritually devastating.

Socrates had it wrong; it is not the unexamined but finally the uncommitted life that is not worth living.

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

I asked an 85 year old professor, 'What makes you cry?' He said, 'Whenever I see or hear the truth.'

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.

The woman most in need of liberation is the woman in every man and the man in every woman.

In life you can either follow your fears or be led by your values, by your passions.