Live life to it's fullest, love wastefully, and be all we can be.

I do assert that one prepares for eternity not by being religious and keeping the rules, but by living fully, loving wastefully, and daring to be all that each of us has the capacity to be.

The church is like a swimming pool. Most of the noise comes from the shallow end.

I think one of the things we've got to look out for is human beings claiming that they know how God operates.

The view of the cross as the sacrifice for the sins of the world is a barbarian idea based on primitive concepts of God and must be dismissed.

I think that anything that begins to give people a sense of their own worth and dignity is God.

Was Judas Iscariot a figure of history? I do not think so. There is no mention of him in any source before the 8th decade.

All religion seems to need to prove that it's the only truth. And that's where it turns demonic. Because that's when you get religious wars and persecutions and burning heretics at the stake.

I don't want a God that would go around killing people's little girls. Neither do I want a God who would kill his own son.

I prepare for death by living.

You can't have a world where 50 percent of the people are dieting and 50 percent of the people are starving if you want stability.

Nothing exists in isolation there is a purpose for everything

The summer passed quietly. I busied myself as best I could, reading a good deal.

Passion is never pathetic.

Love, like a carefully loaded ship, crosses the gulf between the generations.

We don’t attach to things; we attach to our stories about them.

The mountain music... is compelling music in its own right, harking back to a time when music was a part of everyday life and not something performed by celebrities.

So the universe is not quite as you thought it was. You'd better rearrange your beliefs, then. Because you certainly can't rearrange the universe.

The length and breath of our influence on others are directly related to the depth of our concern for them.

You know what, I'm stoned, and I'm proud.

Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.