"Everybody wants happiness, and nobody wants pain, but you can't have a rainbow without a little rain."

“People meeting for the first time suddenly relax if they find they both have cats. And plunge into anecdote.”

“If there is a heaven, it must be here on earth because the earth is so beautiful.”

“He is my brother. She is my sister. Come what will, they are my kin.”

“So, you pay attention to what is in every moment. And when you do that, then you realize that the presence of God is everywhere.”

“Not so many years ago there was no simpler or more intelligible notion than that of going on a journey. Travel -movement through space -provided the universal metaphor for change. One of the subtle confusions -perhaps one of the secret terrors -of modern life is that we have lost this refuge. No longer do we move through space as we once did.”

“Regardless of the Islamophobia, where we have gone wrong in the Democratic Party and the American left is to play wholeheartedly into identity politics, which divides us just as much as it can unite us. We need to take a long hard look. We can celebrate our identities and our heritage, we can understand, you know, but we don't need to be melting pot. We can be a solid ball with all the different pieces.”

“Having disciples is in the end like having children, only not with love but with self-love preeminent.”

“Design is where science and art break even.”