Religion is made up of unrestrained wishes.

With the disappearance of God the Ego moves forward to become the sole divinity.

Death is what takes place within us when we look upon others not as gift, blessing, or stimulus but as threat, danger, competition.

toleration of exploitation, oppression, and injustice points to a condition lying like a pall over the whole of society; it is apathy, an unconcern that is incapable of suffering.

Bible texts are best read with a pair of glasses made out of today's newspaper.

Religion does not confirm that there are hungry people in the world; it interprets the hungry to be our brethren whom we allow to starve.

If my hands are fully occupied in holding on to something, I can neither give nor receive.

What is important is not what someone is but what he is waiting for. Not the events of life but its possibilities.

A language that takes our emotions seriously and gives them real weight in our lives encourages us to think and be and act differently.

To be content with the world as it is is to be dead.

This is the purpose of theology. By it my life becomes clearer and more conscious.

Sometimes you're sure dogs have some secret, superior intelligence, and other times you know they're only their simple, goofy selves.

You know the rule. If you're long, you're never wrong.

In golf, you keep your head down and follow through. In the vice presidency, you keep your head up and follow through. It's a big difference.

The most lively thought is still inferior to the dullest sensation.

We have to get back down to basics. We have to start organizing at the neighborhood level to get people educated to vote.

When a man realizes his littleness, his greatness can appear.

A positive engagement to marry a certain person at a certain time, at all haps and hazards, I have always considered the most ridiculous thing on earth.

Noting all these things with the great delight which learning gives, we cannot but be stirred by these discoveries when we reflect upon the influence of them one by one.

Technology is important because it creates the future. We're able to be a part of the "next" and create things that don't exist.

The weather was fine and moderate. The hunters all returned, having killed during their absence three elk, four deer, two porcupines, a fox and a hare.