Man must now assume the responsibility for his world. He can no longer shove it off on religious power.

All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by. . . .

What we are seeking so frantically elsewhere may turn out to be the horse we have been riding all along.

Secularism is not only indifferent to alternative religious systems, but as a religious ideology it is opposed to any other religious systems. It is therefore a closed system.

Somewhere deep down we know that in the final analysis, we do decide things and that even our decisions to let someone else decide are really our decisions, however pusillanimous.

Not to decide is to decide.

The political is replacing the metaphysical as the characteristic mode of grasping reality.

God laughs, it seems, because God knows how it all turns out in the end.

The real ecumenical crisis today is not between Catholics and Protestants but between traditional and experimental forms of church life.

The comic, more than the tragic, because it ignites hope, leads to more, not less, participation in the struggle for a just world.

There has never been a better raconteur than Jesus of Nazareth.

I have always believed that fame is a curse. I never envied one of the famous people I've known.

The Devil did not tempt Adam and Eve to steal, to lie, to kill, to commit adultery; he tempted them to live independent of God.

Where bright imagination reigns, the fine-wrought spirit feels acuter pains.

There is no reason to be alive if you can't do the deadlift!

I'm the one who made many of the bold comments that we'd seen the technologies from AMD as pretty good. Their technology in many areas was leading. But those are transient.

You can never really know what a guru is as long as you are imprisoned by your own thoughts and circular ego.

Character is ethical and moral strength. People of good character have the moral awareness and strength to know the good, love the good and do the good.

Indeed I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing to do.

As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

In order to win you must be prepared to lose sometime. And leave one or two cards showing.