Rituals are the kindergarten of religion. They are absolutely necessary for the world as it is now

If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then you're allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind.

I have learned that I always feel happier and healthier when I offer genuine love to other people.

Don't give a gift with the expectation to get, but if you have a gift, always try to give.

What you should do is wait until the end of each month, and then say, "OK, how much money do I have? How much do I need? Let me send the rest to retirement."

A difference is a difference only if it makes a difference.

I don't like throwing myself in a place that's going to rock my world.

God is an immensity, while this disease, this death, which is in me, this small, tightly defined pedestrian event, is merely and perfectly real, without miracle—or instruction.

We cannot fulfill that purpose [environmentalism] if we are heaping contempt on God's creation.

I'm psychotically involved in every tiny little aspect. That's just the way I've been about everything my whole life.

The tragedy is not that love doesn't last. The tragedy is the love that lasts.