There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people.

It is time for humanity to reset our spiritual compass from self-centeredness to other-centeredness.

The church must always show compassion, always.

When you have learned compassion for yourself, compassion for others is automatic.

I guess because I came to it later in life, I realized, 'Oh, going to a fashion show is like going to the opening of Degas at the Met or going to see Swan Lake.'

I'm a big cardigan sweater guy.

I'm a sweats and UGGs girl. Very casual.

Francis's starting place was human suffering instead of human sinfulness

I hope we can inaugurate a new humility in our use of religious language, which for me is the very proof that it is authentic.

As the Dalai Lama says, "My religion is kindness; my only religion is kindness.

Christians are meant to be the visible compassion of God on earth more than "those who are going to heaven.

Human sympathy is the best and easiest way to open the heart space and to make us live inside our own bodies. God never intended most human beings to become philosophers or theologians, but God does want all humans to represent the very Sympathy and Empathy of God. And it's okay if it takes a while to get there. Our central message again bears repeating: God loves things by becoming them. We love God by continuing the same pattern.