We're either going to be driven to a whole new sense of radical interdependence where we are, in the Bible's words, our neighbor's keeper, or destroy ourselves.

I do assert that one prepares for eternity not by being religious and keeping the rules, but by living fully, loving wastefully, and daring to be all that each of us has the capacity to be.

The church is like a swimming pool. Most of the noise comes from the shallow end.

I think one of the things we've got to look out for is human beings claiming that they know how God operates.

The view of the cross as the sacrifice for the sins of the world is a barbarian idea based on primitive concepts of God and must be dismissed.

I think that anything that begins to give people a sense of their own worth and dignity is God.

Was Judas Iscariot a figure of history? I do not think so. There is no mention of him in any source before the 8th decade.

All religion seems to need to prove that it's the only truth. And that's where it turns demonic. Because that's when you get religious wars and persecutions and burning heretics at the stake.

I don't want a God that would go around killing people's little girls. Neither do I want a God who would kill his own son.

I prepare for death by living.

You can't have a world where 50 percent of the people are dieting and 50 percent of the people are starving if you want stability.

Happiness is the cure—a cheerful mind the preventive: cultivate both.

But I talk to you as I talk to my own soul, " he said, turning me to face him. He reached up and cupped my cheek, fingers light on my temple."And, Sassenach, " he whispered, "your face is my heart.

Beauty is what you make of it. It is undefined and limitless.

Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.

Mathematics exists solely for the honour of the human mind.

We finally are where we need to be. We have a strategy and a commitment to go after ISIS.

True wealth is not what you have, it's what you're left with with when all you have is gone.

A lucky model who's been given a lot of opportunities I just wish she [Cameron Diaz] would have done more with.

I always counsel aspiring novelists that passion is the most important quality for a writer to possess - technique can be taught, but that relentless desire to write has to come from within.

Marshall McLuhan prediction was some kind of electronic communication technology would emerge to instantaneously connect the world so much so that the whole globe would be like a village.