Men don't live well by themselves. They don't even live like people. They live like bears with furniture.
Compassion is the key in Islam and Buddhism and Judaism and Christianity. They are profoundly similar.
The first person to promulgate the Golden Rule, which was the bedrock of this empathic spirituality, was Confucius 500 years before Christ.
Pain is something that's common to human life. When we ignore it, we aren't engaging in the whole reality, and the pain begins to fester.
The only way to show a true respect for God is to act morally while ignoring God’s existence.
Fundamentalists are not friends of democracy. And that includes your fundamentalists in the United States.
If we don't manage to implement the Golden Rule globally, so that we treat all peoples, wherever and whoever they may be, as though they were as important as ourselves, I doubt that we'll have a viable world to hand on to the next generation.
Ive learned the truth in these sayings: Luck is when opportunity meets preparation and The right project will find you.
British crime stories tend to be very internal, psychological, claustrophobic, very limited in terms of geography.
. . . all cynicism masks a failure to cope.
I decided to be what crime made of me.