Practice giving things away, not just things you don't care about, but things you do like.

The most powerful moral influence is example.

If we take the world’s enduring religions at their best, we discover the distilled wisdom of the human race.

I am profoundly moved and persuaded by the near-death experience.

All -isms end up in schisms.

We all carry it within us: supreme strength, the fullness of wisdom, unquenchable joy. It is never thwarted, and cannot be destroyed.

God is defined by Jesus but not confined to Jesus.

The object of pilgrimage is not rest and recreation – to get away from it all. To set out on a pilgrimage is to throw down a challenge to everyday life.

At the center of the religious life is a peculiar kind of joy, the prospect of a happy ending that blossoms from necessarily painful ordeals, the promise of human difficulties embraced and overcome.

Beware of the differences that blind us to the unity that binds us.

Poetry is a special use of language that opens onto the real. The business of the poet is truth telling, which is why in the Celtic tradition no one could be a teacher unless he or she was a poet.

A path well traveled may still yield secrets that only one person may discover.

The Sun is the light of the day.

It is not what you look at, but rather what you see that matters. Set your focus right.

To have a reason to get up in the morning it is necessary to possess a guiding principle. A belief of some kind. A bumper sticker if you will.

The Vietnam War totally turned my life around. Some people's lives were eliminated or destroyed by the experience. I was one of the fortunate few who came out better off.

Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.

The abolition of the death penalty is making us a civilized society. It shows we actually do mean business when we say we have reverence for life.

To find agreements in one's minority opinions is one of the great pleasures of reading.

I really don't believe in magic.

The will to believe chases out the rational mind, whenever and wherever the two come into conflict.