Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts patriotism idealism a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that.

Religious liberty is the first freedom in our Constitution. And whether the cause is justice for the persecuted compassion for the needy and the sick or mercy for the child waiting to be born there is no greater force for good in the nation than Christian conscience in action.

When there's that forgiveness present and compassion it just helps you live so much easier.

I think we learn the most from imperfect relationships - things like forgiveness and compassion.

I realized that it's all really one that John Lennon was correct. We utilize the music to bring down the walls of Berlin to bring up the force of compassion and forgiveness and kindness between Palestines Hebrews. Bring down the walls here in San Diego Tijuana Cuba.

For me forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?

All major religious traditions carry basically the same message that is love compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.

My girlfriend Siri is a food blogger and we both love to entertain and eat. This is what happens when you're in your thirties: what was once a passion and real appetite for nightlife in New York City manifests itself into other things like entertaining at home.

To see those babies with no food for three of four days old people sitting in the hot sun when you see these poor people you cannot help but being compassionate or affected.

I think there's a lot of work to be done with our societies. My biggest passions are the environment and health. And when I say 'health' I mean the secrets behind health and our food system.

Music is my No. 1 passion. If you made me choose between music and food it's definitely music.

Compassion is a call a demand of nature to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food.

I wasn't passionate about food until I'd been cooking for a while. I started long before food became part of the mainstream media. I just wanted to cook period.

I think about food all the time. It's my passion it's my profession. But some people think about food all the time because they're hungry. We can put an end to this if we join forces and lend a hand.

There's so much importance in honoring your everyday hero. It doesn't take money. It doesn't take connections. What matters is that people get involved. Whether your passion is gun control or food or whatever it may be everybody needs to stop being so self-absorbed.

I'm a home cook and love to read about food but I'm not trained as a chef. I'm just really into cooking and passionate about it.

The passion of the Italian or the Italian-American population is endless for food and lore and everything about it.

You need to eat normally and healthfully and you need to exercise. I'm so passionate about this because I think people spend their lives not happy in their bodies.

What's powerful about a love scene is not seeing the act. It's seeing the passion the need the desire the caring the fear.

There is no nation so powerful as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason but from passion.

The strongest passion is fear.

The thirst for powerful sensations takes the upper hand both over fear and over compassion for the grief of others.

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

Fear is the passion of slaves.