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 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.

It is one thing to say with the prophet Amos, "Let justice roll down like mighty waters," and quite another to work out the irrigation system.

Love measures our stature: the more we love, the bigger we are.

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

To be avoided at all costs is the solace of opinion without the pain of thought.

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