Quotes about Connection

It is not time to dissolve the bands that connect us to one another, but it is time to dissolve the "political" bands that separate us from one another... Let us start by doing what we've been trained for so long not to do: let us declare the causes that unite us.

I can go on the road - because I can come home. I come home - because I'm free to leave. Each way of being is more valued in the presence of the other.

Laughter is an orgasm of the mind.

Roots can exist without flowers, but no flower can exist without roots. Religion may be a flower, but people are its roots.

What I really want to say: That what the world really needs is a real feeling of kinship. Everybody: stars, laborers, Negroes, Jews, Arabs. We are all brothers. Please don't make me a joke. End the interview with what I believe.

Everyone has a home but me.

People before paper; stories before statistics.

This vertical history feels more intimate and sensory than written history. It's been reaching out all along, I just wasn't paying attention.

can replace being in the same space. That's exactly why we need to keep creating the temporary worlds of meetings, small and large, on campuses and everywhere else. In them, we discover we're not alone, we learn from one another, and so we keep going toward shared goals.

True love is not so much a matter of romance as it is a matter of anxious concern for the well-being of one's companion.

Let us never forget to pray. God lives. He is near. He is real. He is not only aware of us but cares for us. He is our Father. He is accessible to all who will seek Him.

Good books are as friends, willing to give to us if we are willing to make a little effort.