“Despite my own personal views about that policy. It reinforces to me that I want to be part of the solution – and I want my work to be part of the solution – not part of the problem.”

We feel like there are way too many problems in the world, and there’s nothing we can do to solve them. We forget how to be compassionate and start to feel hopeless.

Now, I can’t help but feel inferior. When I’m out in public in Afghanistan, I feel inferior because I’m doing everything I can to stay hidden, silent.

Despite our strongly felt kinship and oneness with nature, all the evidence suggests that nature doesn’t care one whit about us.

I found out the hard way that if we don’t disciple people, the culture sure will.

Despite its name, the big bang theory is not really a theory of a bang at all.

This is true despite the significant poverty, and the class and geographic inequality that have deep historical roots.

Illiteracy does not impede the practice of democracy, as witnessed by the success of democracy in India despite the high illiteracy rate.

There is a lightening in our bones and wildfire in our spirits and we will find a way despite it all to survive and thrive.

Ghosts of the person you used to be are so proud of who you are, they live on inside you applauding you for living on despite your scars.

I once asked the most fabulous couple I know, Madonna and Guy Ritchie, how they kept things fresh despite having been married for almost seven months. ‘It’s a job, Al,’ Guy told me. ‘We work at it every day.’