With passion you want to possess. The conversion of passion into compassion is the whole problem of marriage.

Preachers err by trying to talk people into belief; better they reveal the radiance of their own discovery.

it is not science that has diminished human beings or divorced us from divinity. On the contrary, the new discoveries of science “rejoin us to the ancients” by enabling us to recognize in this whole universe “a reflection magnified of our own most inward nature;