Only if we understand can we care. Only if we care will we help.

In all our searching, the only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable is each other.

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

It’s the artists who do the dreaming for society.

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

Forgiveness … is a gift of high value. Yet its cost is nothing.

Love... is the honoring of others in a way that grants them the grace of their own autonomy.

Ultimately a genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.

The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.

The quality of your life depends quite a bit on the quality of attention you project out onto the world.

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.