A God without wrath brought human beings without sin into a kingdom without judgment through ministrations of a Christ without a cross.

The great Christian revolutions came not by the discovery of something that was not known before. They happen when someone takes radically something that was always there.

Christendom has often achieved apparent success by ignoring the precepts of its founder.

Religion makes good people better and bad people worse.

Men are generally right in what they affirm and wrong in what they deny. What we deny is generally something that lies outside our experience, and about which we can therefore say nothing.

Everyone has some kind of philosophy, some general worldview, which to men of other views will seem mythological.

Apart from the resurrection of Jesus, the eschatological orientation of the church appears as the spoke of a wheel without a hub.

Pilgrims are poets who create by taking journeys.

Try as you may, you can never defy love.

Progress begins when you liberate your mind from the shackles of your ingrained tendencies of authoritarianism – the tendencies of greed – the tendencies of hatred, rage and lust.

The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.

We can have no progress without change, whether it be basketball or anything else.

I think I realize why celebrities go crazy, do something stupid or have a nervous breakdown. Fortunately I have great people around me, but I see how that can happen.

Reality means you live until you die. The real truth is nobody wants reality.

The first five to six years of my life were spent in and out of the hospital.

I took up a sort of a hobby of just hanging around the local library. I'd pick out an author and I would read all their books.

My home office and workshop are on an overlook on the only deep river gorge on the entire length of the Mississippi River.

The best of women are hypocrites.