God has no other hands than ours.

With the disappearance of God the Ego moves forward to become the sole divinity.

Death is what takes place within us when we look upon others not as gift, blessing, or stimulus but as threat, danger, competition.

toleration of exploitation, oppression, and injustice points to a condition lying like a pall over the whole of society; it is apathy, an unconcern that is incapable of suffering.

Bible texts are best read with a pair of glasses made out of today's newspaper.

Religion does not confirm that there are hungry people in the world; it interprets the hungry to be our brethren whom we allow to starve.

If my hands are fully occupied in holding on to something, I can neither give nor receive.

What is important is not what someone is but what he is waiting for. Not the events of life but its possibilities.

A language that takes our emotions seriously and gives them real weight in our lives encourages us to think and be and act differently.

To be content with the world as it is is to be dead.

This is the purpose of theology. By it my life becomes clearer and more conscious.

Tut, Tut, looks like rain

If bin Laden is in fact publicly killed, then the US military will find itself standing around with its hands in its pockets, wondering what's supposed to come next.

Beauty loses its relish; the graces never.

The city is not the problem; the city is the solution.

From the classical guitar right through to the furthest electrical experiments and everything in-between, it's amazing what the guitar can actually do. I mean, when one thinks about sounds.

I don't know if I've ever derived such an immediate sense of calm and well-being from any book as I did from 'Right Ho, Jeeves.' It was like I was Pac-Man and the book was a power-up.

Since the last decades of the nineteenth century, revolt against the objectified world has determined the character of art and literature.

As I like to say, take the shot, even if your knees are shaking.

Nothing in life is trivial. Life is whole wherever and whenever we touch it, and one moment or event is not less sacred than another.

Most joyful let the Poet be, it is through him that all men see.