If you have the guts to keep making mistakes, your wisdom and intelligence leap forward with huge momentum.

When we make mistakes, say, I'm blessed that I have an opportunity to learn from this.

Once women are not excluded, I don't think any of us will give a damn what pronouns are used. That wasn't the point.

Why do we kill people who are killing people to show that killing people is wrong?

Leaping away from my mistakes has propelled me forward. It has great force behind it. It makes for great storytelling.

To be always in a state of wonder is a kind of sensitivity that can sometimes be an extraordinary blessing and sometimes a real pain.

I am selfish. I reach for the world I want to live in. And I believe in leaving our best we can do to our children

Music can be used against us as much as it can be used for us. Muzak can put a whole nation to sleep, whereas a lullaby is intended to put a child to sleep in a sweet way.

You just keep feeding hogwash to people, and pretty soon they'll eat it.

You can't just leave out one part; the bread won't rise if the yeast isn't there.

We who are interested in relative truth have to keep digging for it and not let ourselves be sucked under.

The nature of consciousness is to point beyond itself. It is a tending toward or pointing to... Since consciousness points beyond itself, it is in its very being a self-transcendence.

I'm always playing along that line: adding something more, yet keeping it sort of chaos.

People are the story they tell themselves.

No matter what storm you face, you need to know God loves you. He has not abandoned you.

However, even a strong government can't perform miracles. It needs money from the taxpayers.

When you are able to love someone unconditionally , without reason, you can begin to understand God's unconditional love for you.

Architecture, sculpture, painting, music, and poetry, may truly be called the efflorescence of civilised life.

Part of you is always traveling faster, always traveling ahead. Even when you are moving, it is never fast enough to satisfy that part of you.

when a swinging sin is to be committed, there is nothing like a gown and a cassock to cover it.

The solution when you don't like someone's speech is not to silence that person, or that corporation. It's more and louder speech of your own.