Science can prove nothing about God, because God lies outside its province.

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.

Opportunity doesn't make appointments, you have to be ready when it arrives.

The soul identifies with the spirit.

Unhappiness where's when I was young, And we didn't give a damn, 'Cause we were raised, To see life as fun and take it if we can.

Falling in love is one of the activities forbidden that tiresome person, the consistently reasonable man.

Haven't shed a single tear, but I'm hurtin' down inside.

Socks may eat wherever they want to.

Art is so personal. I'm very comforted by the fact that certain movies that I love, other people hate. Certain books that I love, other people hate. You can't please everybody.

Never try and go on a solo mission on your own.

I have gone into yesterday and tomorrow and both were as real as today -- which is like the dreams of ghosts!

The price of freedom is eternal vigilance and a willingness to act in its defense.