. . it seemed to me that where others had prayed before to their God, in their joy or in their agony, was of itself a sacred place.
My mother told me Homer Ditto was not my father. Nope. Mom had had a fling with some other guy who was my dad. Some dude who didn't stick around too long who Mom was happy to get rid of. She chose Hom...
Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the...
CHALLENGES MAKE US RISE TO THE OCASSION.
He shall rule, whom they look not for that dwell upon the earth, and the fowls shall take their flight away together:
The richest man is he who lives simply but has an abundance of love and kindness to give away.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Forgiveness requires a sense that bad behaviour is a sign of suffering rather than malice.
The humanitarian philosophies that have been developed (sometimes under some religious banner and invariably in the face of religious opposition) are human inventions, as the name implies - and our sp...
People and institutions that refuse to admit error eventually discredit themselves.
Wherever Cool is, anyway, I missed it, and now I'm stuck observing these machinations or sex and status and dancing and parties and people sucking at each other under the bleacher seating like some ki...