I don't make that decision [what next book will be] until I've read enough to know that I've got something different to say and I know how to say it.

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.

The road to knowledge has no definite end to it. It keeps on going for however long your stay on earth is.

How we spend our money, however little we have, still reveals what we value.

Your influence as a leader will increase when you empower others' strengths, which in return equips them to pursue their callings, not their shortcomings.

Tis only when faced with our own mortality that we truly realize what it means to be alive,

There was no such thing as defeat if you didn't accept it.

Integrity indicates wholeness or oneness. If we have integrity, we are sincere, truthful, fair, and honest.

As an actor, you can do what you want with your role. That's why they hire you; to take the role and make it real.

I conceive of God, in fact, as a means of liberation and not a means to control others.

Thinkers are as scarce as gold.

Don't be evil is a load of crap.