I've never met anybody who was helped by being told how wretched, miserable and sinful they are.

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.

Every night I cut out my heart. But in the morning it was full again

Love can be a poison.

Humans lose focus of the big picture when they’re drunken in the midst of their feelings. - Tojuro Hattori

I speak my mind. If it offends some people, well, there's not much I can do about that. But I'm going to be honest. I'm going to continue to speak my mind, and that's who I am...

I've always had my voice as a comic. I was never that into politics, or prop comedy.

I guess I rooted for the Creature from the Black Lagoon.

I don't use the word 'artists' lightly.

Pursue your goals even in the face of difficulties, and convert adversities into opportunities.

One day they might even say that I was another Ryan Giggs.

I've always believed that conservatism is the politics of reality, and that reality ultimately asserts itself in a reasonably free society, in behalf of the conservative position.