But in order to have an adult faith, most of us have to outgrow and unlearn much of what we were taught about religion.

Friendship is an art, and very few persons are born with a natural gift for it.

Just the knowledge that a good book is waiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.

Prayer is not asking for what you think you want, but asking to be changed in ways you can't imagine.

I wonder if children don't begin to reject both poetry and religion for similar reasons, because the way both are taught takes the life out of them.

Not money, or success, or position or travel or love makes happiness,--service is the secret.

In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular.

But hope has an astonishing resilience and strength. Its very persistence in our hearts indicates that it is not a tonic for wishful thinkers but the ground on which realists stand.

Disconnecting from change does not recapture the past. It loses the future.

Peace - that was the other name for home.

Only Christ could have brought us all together, in this place, doing such absurd but necessary things.

I do think that I am generally optimistic.

War is sweet to those who haven't tasted it. Dulce bellum inexpertis.

I feel that it is vital that we all re-open our spiritual gifts and open up to the voice of the Divine.

He was a great man. And he was also me.

It is wisdom to know others. It is enlightenment to know oneself.

Poe is a kind of Hawthorne and delirium tremens.

People hand over the power to you withimmense faith. It's your job to ensure tough implementation of laws.

Obama has been the single worst president in modern American history in dealing with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Donald [Trump] is a charming person. He can be fun. He can make you laugh. But he can turn on you. And get nasty and personal and vicious.

You cannot devalue the body and value the soul Or value anything else.