If God is God, he is the God of reality and facts and science and history.

Belief in God is an act of faith. But so is believing our existence is simply the result of chance.

Christianity contains within itself a germ hostile to the Church (Dietrich Bonhoeffer)

It was not apathy or passiveness. For him, prayer was a display of the strongest possible activity.

Religion is the most fragile of all freedoms. And that's because it is the most threatening to those in power.

True faith is not a leap into the dark; it's a leap into the light

Ideas have far-reaching consequences, and one must be ever so careful about what one allows to lodge in one's brain.

Jesus was and is the enemy of dead religion.

With the tools of democracy, democracy was murdered and lawlessness made "legal." Raw power ruled, and its only real goal was to destroy all other powers besides itself.

It's so easy to become a grumbler, someone who condemns and carps at everything on principle and sees an ulterior motive behind it.

He did not hope that God heard his prayers; he knew it.

The beauty of literature - also its limit - is that it is inescapably personal, even if you're writing science fiction.

Practicing going over scenes and in front of the camera just to see how that feels, and then ultimately just finding a way to expose yourself to people. That’s what I did.

First be sure that you know exactly what you want to say. Then be sure you have said exactly that.

Whatever liberates our spirit, without also giving us mastery over ourselves, is destructive.

You've probably read in People that I'm a nice guy - but when the doctor first told me I had Parkinson's, I wanted to kill him.

I was actually the manager of the games department of an amusement park when I was at college, so I understood the coin-op side of the games business very well.

In a world full of people, only some want to fly. Isn't that crazy?

A full belly does not make for a chaste spirit.

Perhaps without the lows, the highs could not be reached.

The reason that the World Trade Center got hit is because there are a lot of people living in abject poverty out there who don't have any hope for a better life.