Whitehead reacted strongly against the idea of God as a cosmic tyrant, one who brings about everything.

It is the faithfulness of God that allows epistemology to model ontology.

At present, too much theological thinking is very human-centered.

Evolution, of course, is not something that simply applies to life here on earth; it applies to the whole universe.

God didn't produce a ready-made world. The Creator has done something cleverer than this, making a world able to make itself.

I need the binocular approach of science and religion if I am to do any sort of justice to the deep and rich reality of the world in which we live.

Hope is much more than a mood. It involves a commitment to action.... What we hope for should be what we are prepared to work for...as far as that power lies in us.

The rational transparency and beauty of the universe are surely too remarkable to be treated as just happy accidents.

God is not a God of the edges, with a vested interest in beginnings. God is the God of the whole show.

Quantum theory also tells us that the world is not simply objective; somehow it's something more subtle than that. In some sense it is veiled from us, but it has a structure that we can understand.

Mathematics is the abstract key which turns the lock of the physical universe.

Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.

If you polish things too much, it loses the feeling

In this game that we're playing, we can't win. Some kinds of failure are better than other kinds, that's all.

I've been into music for a long time. I started playing drums when I was 8 and piano when I was 10, then bass and guitar when I was 18.

Do not let emotions fluctuate with the up and down of your capital.

There is no question that women helping women works for women.

I lived on couches for something like six months. I had no home. I was totally broke. I would stay at a friend's house for two weeks, then move because I didn't want to become this permanent mooch.

Because I still love him. You can't just turn love off. You still feel it.

Only an idiot would rely on the energy of a bean or a leaf to stay awake throughout the day.

War creates its own intensity of hatred... You don't want to use force except as an absolute last resort.