Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living in better conditions.

There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.

Love is such a powerful force. It’s there for everyone to embrace-that kind of unconditional love for all of humankind. That is the kind of love that impels people to go into the community and try to change conditions for others, to take risks for what they believe in.

Compassion asks us to go where it hurts, to enter into the places of pain, to share in brokenness, fear, confusion, and anguish. Compassion challenges us to cry out with those in misery, to mourn with those who are lonely, to weep with those in tears. Compassion requires us to be weak with the weak, vulnerable with the vulnerable, and powerless with the powerless. Compassion means full immersion in the condition of being human.

The outer conditions of a person’s life will always be found to reflect their inner beliefs.

Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.