We are not loved because we are valued; we are valued because we are loved.

Compassion and justice are companions, not choices.

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

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.

If your heart is full of fear, you won't seek truth; you'll seek security. If a heart is full of love, it will have a limbering effect on the mind.

I'm delighted that the future is unsure. That's the way it should be.

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.