Stability is why society has an interest in marriage.

Sometimes there are things worth risking your life for. It was Jesus who said if you want to save your life, you have to lose it.

I think there's a terrible price to be paid when your exterior life is not an honest reflection of your interior life.

I think people often come to the synagogue, mosque, the church looking for God, and what we give them is religion.

We love to talk about justice. It's the doing of justice that's hard...I believe it is work we are called to do

The bees learn where they live by landmarks. If they're moved within their home range, they get confused.

Only God is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow. The Church has always been changing.

I will always speak out when someone says that a principle or a rule or a tradition trumps people.

When you claim to have the truth, as opposed to the truth as you perceive it, then you move us toward a theocratic view of government.

Left to our own devices and passions, we human beings have a hard time seeing beyond what is immediately in front of us.

Historically speaking, institutions are slow to change and usually resistant to any sudden moves - churches especially so.

You've evolved when you realize the effect that your positive contributions to others create ripples of humanity in the sea of life.

It was only possible because it was attained. An Idea isn't feasible until it becomes reality

It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though limits to our abilities do not exist.

Why am I in Hell? It hurts. It hurts all the time. Why am I in Hell? I just want to go home and lie on the bed the way I used to. Please take me home.

Nations endure only as long as their topsoil.

There's no deodorant for desperation.

If you don't have a cause bigger than yourself, you won't get beyond yourself.

I keep kind of making certain mistakes in public appearances over and over again.

Energy can't be created or destroyed, and energy flows. It must be in a direction, with some kind of internal, emotive, spiritual direction. It must have some effect somewhere.

The script just can't commit the sin of being boring.