“..But for anything to be good, truly good, there must be love in it. .. There must be love for the gift itself, love for the subject being depicted or the story being told, and love for the audience. Whether the art is sculpture, farming, teaching, lawmaking, medicine, music, or raising a child, if love is not in it - at the very heart of it - it might be skillful, marketable, or popular but I doubt it is truly good. Nothing is what it is supposed to be if love is not at the core.”
Source: Theo of Golden
“Wanting to help was not enough. To rescue a Jew in these conditions, where no structure supported the effort and where the penalty was death, required something stronger than character, something greater than a worldview. Generous people took humane decisions, yet still failed. Probably most men and women of goodwill who were able to take the initial risk failed after a month, a week, a day. It was an era where to be good meant not only the avoidance of evil but a total determination to act on behalf of a stranger, on a planet where hell, not heaven, was the reward for goodness.”
Source: Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning
“More than facts, understanding is the best reason.”
Source: Sonnets From The Mountaintop
“Cell biology is soul biology,
nothing more majestic or enlightened;
sacred is not elsewhere,
sacred is just cells at their most humane.”
Source: Sonnets From The Mountaintop
“May every drop of sweat. which you shed while raising me, flow as a river for you in the gardens of Jannah.
My beloved Mother and Father.
Aameen.”
“A boy needs to learn that doing what is good, what is right, is not always easy.”
Source: A Rare and Dangerous Beast
“Libraries always remind me that there are good things in this world.”
“The proof of sacredness is in goodness.”
Source: Abigitano 4: La Fiesta Justicia
“Suffering is the doorway, to the becoming of a saint.”
Source: Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot
“I am almost sure that we, today, underestimate the intelligence, ingenuity and perhaps goodness of our remote ancestors, who did not have to think, as we must, in terms of total world destruction, but who could concentrate on living.”
Source: Early in Orcadia