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.

Built into human makeup is a longing for a 'more' that the world of everyday experience cannot requite.

I'm not happy when I'm writing, but I'm more unhappy when I'm not.

Faith in God's Loving Kindness has truly been attained when both gain and loss bring the same degree of Gratitude.

I was wishing I had a story like that one to live inside me with so much loudness you could pick it up on a stethoscope.

The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.

What we really need is compassion of the mind - compassion for others that is directed intelligently and produces truly compassionate results.

There is no business in America that would be prevented from taking results into account when making personnel decisions.

Code-sharing, alliances, and connections are all about "how do we screw the poor customer for more money?"

I think I respect everyone votes and everyone must respect my votes. My vote bdo in 2015 was for [Lionel] Messi because, for me, he had an amazing season and he deserved to win.

We repose an unwise confidence in any government, or in any men, when we invest them officially with too much, or an unnecessary quantity of, discretionary power.

President Bush says we've turned the corner in Iraq. What is that, about 16 corners we've turned? I think they call that running in circles.