All -isms end up in schisms.

The most powerful moral influence is example.

If we take the world’s enduring religions at their best, we discover the distilled wisdom of the human race.

I am profoundly moved and persuaded by the near-death experience.

We all carry it within us: supreme strength, the fullness of wisdom, unquenchable joy. It is never thwarted, and cannot be destroyed.

God is defined by Jesus but not confined to Jesus.

The object of pilgrimage is not rest and recreation – to get away from it all. To set out on a pilgrimage is to throw down a challenge to everyday life.

At the center of the religious life is a peculiar kind of joy, the prospect of a happy ending that blossoms from necessarily painful ordeals, the promise of human difficulties embraced and overcome.

Beware of the differences that blind us to the unity that binds us.

Poetry is a special use of language that opens onto the real. The business of the poet is truth telling, which is why in the Celtic tradition no one could be a teacher unless he or she was a poet.

Built into human makeup is a longing for a 'more' that the world of everyday experience cannot requite.

You jealous souls are primeval without a doubt, Teach yourself to eat better instead of trying to eat one's heart out.

Entrance into Heaven is not at the hour of death, but at the moment of conversion.

Families are struggling to put bread on the table, send their kids to college and take care of their basic needs. America needs a political revolution.

There are dreams stronger than death. Men and women die holding these dreams.

.. that a rule, which, in speculation, may seem the most advantageous to society, may yet be found, in practice, totally pernicious and destructive.

The wild-flower wreath of feeling, the sunbeam of the heart.

So dress and conduct yourself so that people who have been in your company will not recall what you had on.

Democracy is welcoming people from other lands, and giving them something to hold onto. Usually a mop or a leaf blower.

American culture is CEO obsessed. We celebrate the hard-charging heroes and mythologize the iconoclastic visionaries. Those people are important.

I think the policy makers like the idea of being the boss. I mean people who like to boss other people around like to go into politics so they can become the boss.