"Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe the more often and steadily we reflect upon them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me."
"Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason."
"Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy."
"God is of no importance unless He is of supreme importance."
"Our prime purpose in life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them."
"The fundamental purpose of prayer, including the prayer of petition, is not to get something from God, or to change God, but to change ourselves. We pray in order to give ourselves to God."
"Spirituality is about the human spirit and our interconnectedness with each other and with God, however we define the Creator. One does not have to have a specific faith to be spiritual."
Two life moments are unparalleled in a awakening a sense of awe: beholding a birth, and standing in a presence of death. The mystery of death is illuminated by analogy to birth… Whether we hold a newborn infant or touch the hand of a person near death, a fundamentally similar awareness emerges: life is exquisitely valuable. Language stretches to express it. Life belongs in a wholly different genre of value than measurable, material, temporal goods."
All the darkness of the world cannot extinguish the light of a small candle.