Definitions are the foundation of reason. You can’t reason without them.

The real purpose of the scientific method is to make sure nature hasn’t misled you into thinking you know something you actually don’t know.

For every fact there is an infinity of hypotheses.

An egoless acceptance of stuckness is a key to an understanding of all Quality.

When analytic thought, the knife, is applied to experience, something is always killed in the process.

The bones and flesh and legal statistics are the garments worn by the personality, not the other way around.

The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there.

The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away, I'm looking for the truth, " and so it goes away. Puzzling.

To all appearances he was just drifting. In actuality he was just drifting.

When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called a Religion.

We have artists with no scientific knowledge and scientists with noartistic knowledge and both with no spiritual sense of gravity at all, and the result is not just bad, it is ghastly.

Men's vows are women's traitors!

Were women meant to do everything - work and have babies?

The one benefit of having done all kinds of movies as an actor is, you learn the pros and cons of being tempted to do a really big movie because it costs a lot of money.

It made me wonder if the reasons our lives seem so muddled is because we keep walking into scenes in which we, along with the people around us, have no clear idea what we want.

It is not a church’s job to spiritually develop your children. Scripturally, it is the job of the parents. The church body is supposed to support parents in raising children, not replace them.

When I was seventeen, I worked as a counsellor at a co-ed sleep-away camp for eight weeks. I loved it but it could be harrowing - it was far too much responsibility for someone my age.

I look at myself as a product of my choices, not a victim of my circumstances.

There's no such thing as a normal life. Some lives are just more interesting than others, and we shouldn't judge people for being boring.

I've been having a midlife crisis since I was four years old.

Atheism was natural enough, but heresy seemed strange. For, surely, if one could believe anything, one could believe everything.