Left to our own devices and passions, we human beings have a hard time seeing beyond what is immediately in front of us.

Sometimes there are things worth risking your life for. It was Jesus who said if you want to save your life, you have to lose it.

I think there's a terrible price to be paid when your exterior life is not an honest reflection of your interior life.

I think people often come to the synagogue, mosque, the church looking for God, and what we give them is religion.

We love to talk about justice. It's the doing of justice that's hard...I believe it is work we are called to do

The bees learn where they live by landmarks. If they're moved within their home range, they get confused.

Only God is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow. The Church has always been changing.

I will always speak out when someone says that a principle or a rule or a tradition trumps people.

When you claim to have the truth, as opposed to the truth as you perceive it, then you move us toward a theocratic view of government.

Historically speaking, institutions are slow to change and usually resistant to any sudden moves - churches especially so.

I've long been really intrigued with what is the ... proper role of faith and religion in public life.

Do whatever makes your spirit glow out loud.

The period from 2001 to 2005 was really tough. My films were not working even though there was an acceptance of a model. I was depressed but did not cry. I cry when I am happy.

As far as music school goes, I walked through Berkelee one time.

That's a shame. I'm sure somebody, somewhere, cares.

The eternal part of our being is perfect, free, always changing, always new, and completely conscious of all things.

There's a place in me that can really relate to being the underdog. I'm always fighting to overcome the obstacle. I can really understand what's that about.

We're man enough to step in there and fight our hearts out and you have to be man enough to deal with a loss.

What is well done, I feel as if I did; what is ill-done, I reck not of.

Another thing the Democrats have grown accustomed to is their candidate is untouchable.

The Attic warbler pours her throat, Responsive to the cuckoo's note, The untaught harmony of spring.