India is the most religious country in the world, Sweden is the most secular country in the world, and America is a country of Indians ruled by Swedes.

One can't understand the Christian Right and similar movements unless one sees them as reactive - they're reacting to what they call secular humanism

A few years ago, a priest working in a slum section of a European city was asked why he was doing it, and replied, 'So that the rumor of God may not completely disappear.

Let me say again that the relationship is asymmetrical: there's no democracy without a market economy, but you can have a market economy without democracy.

Unlike puppets we have the possibility of stopping in our movements, looking up and perceiving the machinery by which we have been moved. In this act lies the first steps towards freedom.

If you are good for nothing else, you can still serve as a bad example.

In acute suffering the need for meaning is as strong or stronger than the need for happiness.

Even if one is interested only in one's own society, which is one's prerogative, one can understand that society much better by comparing it with others.

He who has the bigger stick has the better chance of imposing his definitions of reality.

The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened.

Religion is the human attitude towards a sacred order that includes within it all being-human or otherwise-i.e., belief in a cosmos, the meaning of which both includes and transcends man.

War was easy. The hard part was cleaning up afterward.

My mom, dad, grandparents, we all do voices.

Rock stars are good at making noise.

I never forget that I live in a house owned by all the American people and that I have been given their trust.

There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good.

I didn't see a ton of movies growing up.

For once in your life, here's your miracle, stand up and fight.

The velocity with which time flies is infinite, as is most apparent to those who look back.

I like to get everything done during the early morning hours and the early part of the day.