As he becomes self-conscious, he's no longer part of nature.

I do assert that one prepares for eternity not by being religious and keeping the rules, but by living fully, loving wastefully, and daring to be all that each of us has the capacity to be.

The church is like a swimming pool. Most of the noise comes from the shallow end.

I think one of the things we've got to look out for is human beings claiming that they know how God operates.

The view of the cross as the sacrifice for the sins of the world is a barbarian idea based on primitive concepts of God and must be dismissed.

I think that anything that begins to give people a sense of their own worth and dignity is God.

Was Judas Iscariot a figure of history? I do not think so. There is no mention of him in any source before the 8th decade.

All religion seems to need to prove that it's the only truth. And that's where it turns demonic. Because that's when you get religious wars and persecutions and burning heretics at the stake.

I don't want a God that would go around killing people's little girls. Neither do I want a God who would kill his own son.

I prepare for death by living.

You can't have a world where 50 percent of the people are dieting and 50 percent of the people are starving if you want stability.

We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.

Meditation is a secular practice, not a religious practice.

You know they say the most dangerous person of the world is a member of the United States Congress just home from a three-day fact-finding trip.

Today, as it was 2,000 years ago, the Kingdom of God is within each of us. It is not within a church, a temple, a mosque or synagogue.

I've written thousands of stories, started hundreds of news cycles.

The best armor against slander is having an honorable past. A good name is always made of smear-proof material.

A pedestal is the most insidious prison ever devised.

If understanding followed no rule at all, there would be no good in the understanding nor in the matter understood, and to remain in ignorance would be the greatest good.

Schoolteachers seemed determined to persuade me that 'classic' is a synonym for 'narcotic'.

But it was too early to know: there were always more pages to go, more words to be written, before the story was over.