Hell was never God's intention. It is man's invention. It is a human-manufactured religious icon, no less idolatrous than deifying a statue.

Belief compelled through fear is not belief, it is blind and forced obedience.

It's nice to think that the weirdos get to decide what matters about the past, since it's the weirdos who care the most.

Life is a dark stage on which you were born to shine.

The true antidote to greed is contentment. If you have a strong sense of contentment, it doesn't matter whether you obtain the object of your desire or not. Either way, you are still content.

The end of all activity in the church is to see that a man and a woman with their children are happy at home, sealed for eternity.

Evolution does not make happiness its goal; it aims simply at evolution and nothing else.

I'm not an expert in it, but it seems to me that you have to let the market forces go their course.

Devaluations are never easy.

A hero is someone who stands in the community and speaks their hopes and speaks their passion. That's almost an act of heroism nowadays because higher consciousness is so trivialized.

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

Either we stay at home and become pillars of the community or we go out and tour. We couldn't really find any communities that still needed pillars.