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.

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.

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.

I've long been really intrigued with what is the ... proper role of faith and religion in public life.

I believe that just because something didn’t go the way you planned it once, it’s no reason not to try again.

Knowing is not enough. You must accept My blessings in order to attain a better life. You must embrace a higher level of consciousness.

The wishbone will never replace the backbone

The education needs in Silicon Valley versus rural Iowa versus Tennessee are very different.

Bottom line: If you love yourself, it will all work out.

If you look at Marvel Comics, there are very few Marvel characters I would like to write.

When you make such a large withdrawal of happiness, somewhere you'll have to make an equally large deposit. It all goes back to the universal law of equilibrium.

If someone committed a crime, they will no longer work in my administration.

There are a lot of idiot fund managers out there who add no value to the process at all.

The spaces between the perceiver and the thing perceived can [...] be closed with a shout of recognition.