One of the reasons there are largely Catholic and largely Protestant regions of Germany today is that people did sort themselves out geographically.

The forgetting of the history of marginalized groups is both a cause and effect of their marginalization.

Americans are in serious intellectual trouble - in danger of losing our hard-won cultural capital to a virulent mixture of anti-intellectualism, anti-rationalism and low expectations.

The government should not be in the business of funneling money for social services through any faith-based organization

We do want our fellow citizens to respect our deeply held conviction that the absence of an afterlife lends a greater, not a lesser, moral importance to our actions on earth.

one of the great weaknesses of the women's rights movement over the past two hundred years has been the tendency of its history to disappear, so that it must be resurrected for each new generation.

Real-life discussions involve a great many bores and boors who have never learned that the art of conversation demands listening as well as talking.

Whether you are religious or nonreligious, may you find solace in the knowledge that the suffering is ours, but that those we love suffer no more.

The biggest religious wars and persecutions in history occur when religions, each claiming their own absolute truths, come into conflict.

At its heart, all intellectual and emotional life is a conversation, and the conversation begins at birth.

I feel Jewish in the sense of culturally Jewish, I suppose the way Bernie Sanders feels Jewish, but not Jewish in a religious sense.

There was something scary about watching adults sleep. It was as if no one at all were in charge of the world.

A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

Life has come from a very beautiful source. If you remain in touch with that source, everything about you will be beautiful.

I like the challenges of doing different things. It keeps things fresh for me.

I ask for a stonger and more devoted voice... a voice for good, a voice for the gospel, a voice for God.

I'm a guy that wants the movie to work. So whatever it takes or whatever you got to do - I'm happy to do.

An innocent bird is not innocent from the insect's point of view! Only man can attain the rank of innocence through becoming a peaceful vegetarian!

I don't like to be away from my family for long periods.

We're too many people; that's why we have global warming...on a voluntary basis, everybody in the world's got to pledge to themselves that one child is it.

Organizations, by their very nature are designed to promote order and routine. They are inhospitable environments for innovation.