If you are drilling for water, it's better to drill one 60-foot well than 10 6-foot wells.

The most powerful moral influence is example.

If we take the world’s enduring religions at their best, we discover the distilled wisdom of the human race.

I am profoundly moved and persuaded by the near-death experience.

All -isms end up in schisms.

We all carry it within us: supreme strength, the fullness of wisdom, unquenchable joy. It is never thwarted, and cannot be destroyed.

God is defined by Jesus but not confined to Jesus.

The object of pilgrimage is not rest and recreation – to get away from it all. To set out on a pilgrimage is to throw down a challenge to everyday life.

At the center of the religious life is a peculiar kind of joy, the prospect of a happy ending that blossoms from necessarily painful ordeals, the promise of human difficulties embraced and overcome.

Beware of the differences that blind us to the unity that binds us.

Poetry is a special use of language that opens onto the real. The business of the poet is truth telling, which is why in the Celtic tradition no one could be a teacher unless he or she was a poet.

Every story I've written was written because I had to write it. Writing stories is like breathing for me

Jesus came to be the light for the world, and then there's the Christmas star and the idea of letting your light shine...But not blinding your neighbor with it.

Win or lose, I believe in giving my best and that is what I always do.

We wanted to touch them with our action.

At the moment I was mad enough to chew up nails and spit out paper clips.

Working against a restriction - for me - often produces greater things than getting rid of all boundaries.

When did it become the law of the land that the Supreme Court has the final say on anything? They cannot have the final say on anything. The American people have the final say on anything.

You live and learn. Or you don't live long.

You will triumph, O Iraqis, and with you the sons of your Arab nation

I think the human race has no future if it doesn't go into space.