Love is in the giver, not the gift.

Faith handles the ultimate incongruities of life, humor handles the more immediate ones.

Without love, violence will change the world; it will change it into a more violent one.

Compassion and justice are companions, not choices.

In reality, there are no biblical literalists, only selective literalists. By abolishing slavery and ordaining women, millions of Protestants have gone far beyond biblical literalism. It's time we did the same for homophobia.

It's too bad that one has to conceive of sports as being the only arena where risks are, [for] all of life is risk exercise. That's the only way to live more freely, and more interestingly.

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