Life is a continual alternation of rest and action, of the need of comfort and the need of power.

The tendency to turn human judgments into divine commands makes religion one of the most dangerous forces in the world.

Eternal life is personal existence in continuity with the present life, but transfigured.

the truth is seldom found in extremes. Central truths can be revolutionary if put to work.

One can be coerced to church, but not to worship.

The great danger is that in the confession of any collective sin, one shall confess the sins of others and forget our own.

... we all know how to pray better than we practice what we know!

Religion is the most widely debated and least agreed upon phenomenon of human history.

Prayer is the opening of the soul to God so that he can speak to us.

The perpetual danger which besets religion is that it may substitute gentility and aestheticism for prophetic insight and power.

To keep God at the center of one's life requires frequent renewal of power through prayer.

Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune.

Active love doesn’t ask: 'What does this person have to offer me?' Rather: 'What do I have to offer this person?

To the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under them or around them - the whole leaf and root tribe.

GUILLOTINE, n. A machine which makes a Frenchman shrug his shoulders with good reason.

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

Every woman is insecure, no matter how beautiful they are.

Ah, good ol’ trustworthy beer. My love for you will never die.

Clanless, lawless, homeless is he who is in love with civil war, that brutal ferocious thing.

I've never had the right words to describe my life, and now that I've entered my story, I need them more than ever.

Without passion, men are not willing to pay any price or bear any burden to set the captives free.