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.

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.

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 stopped living a long time ago, in order to simply exist. Now I am trying to leave existence, in order to step into nihility.

I do not find fault with equality for drawing men into the pursuit of forbidden pleasures, but for absorbing them entirely in the search for the pleasures that are permitted.

There is no progress toward ultimate freedom without transformation, and this is the key issue in all lives.

Sick of being a prisoner of my childhood, I want to put it behind me.

A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.

Everybody's saturated with the marketing hype of next-generation consoles. They are wonderful, but the truth is that they are as powerful as a high end PC is right now.

Put them in position to make their wishes come true, so they can have multiple accounts that gain interest over night.

The Negro is the child of two cultures - Africa and America. The problem is that in the search for wholeness all too many Negroes seek to embrace only one side of their natures.

Knowing the steps to create living growth: that is art.

I thrive on challenges, and there is no more imposing challenge for someone in my profession than winning an NBA title.