Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
Tolerance is not really a lived virtue; it’s more of a cerebral ascent.
Intelligence alone does not get us where we need to go or even necessarily where we want to go. For that, the human creature must exercise harder-won capacities of wisdom, and wise action.
Compassion is a piece of vocabulary that could change us if we truly let it sink into the standards to which we hold ourselves and others.
The things that go wrong for you have a lot of potential to become part of your gift to the world.
Depression can kill you. It can also be a spiritually enriching experience. It's really an important part of my theology now and my spirituality that life is not perfect, and I grew up wanting it to be and thinking that if it wasn't, I could make it that way, and I had to acknowledge that I had all kinds of flaws and sadnesses and problems.
You are not going to be perfect every day. It’s about turning up the next day and doing it again.
Sometimes your dream has to die so God's dream can come alive in you.
If I had a time machine I would go back 30 years and show up at my grandmother's apartment before the gargantuan meals she would serve and I would help her.
In a world filled with misery and uncertainty, it is a great comfort to know that, in the end, there is light in the darkness.
We regard it as a certainty that the earth, enclosed between poles, is bounded by a spherical surface.