The cause of violence is not ignorance. It is self-interest. Only reverance can restrain violence - reverance for human life and the environment.

We put our best foot forward, but it's the other one that needs the attention.

The temptation to moralize is strong; it is emotionally satisfying to have enemies rather than problems, to seek out culprits rather than the flaws in the system.

Nuclear Weapons merit unequivocal and unhesitating condemnation

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.

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

There is nothing anti-intellectual in the leap of faith, for faith is not believing without proof but trusting without reservation.