a sick society, unlike a sick individual, fares best under the ministration of many doctors.

The tendency to turn human judgments into divine commands makes religion one of the most dangerous forces in the world.

Eternal life is personal existence in continuity with the present life, but transfigured.

the truth is seldom found in extremes. Central truths can be revolutionary if put to work.

One can be coerced to church, but not to worship.

The great danger is that in the confession of any collective sin, one shall confess the sins of others and forget our own.

... we all know how to pray better than we practice what we know!

Religion is the most widely debated and least agreed upon phenomenon of human history.

Prayer is the opening of the soul to God so that he can speak to us.

The perpetual danger which besets religion is that it may substitute gentility and aestheticism for prophetic insight and power.

To keep God at the center of one's life requires frequent renewal of power through prayer.

Prayer is a way, a road we build for love to walk into our lives.

So many roads. So many detours. So many choices. So many mistakes.

No doctor knows everything. There's a reason why it's called "practising" medicine.

I don't think about Hollywood at all.

Modesty is bred of self-reverence. Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds.

Talk to me about sadness. I talk about it too much in my own head but I never mind others talking about it either; I occasionally feel like I tremendously need others to talk about it as well.

If you begin to consider yourself solely responsible to a political party, you're half-way to a dictatorship.

When an engineer has built a bridge, the fact that a cat can pass over the bridge is no proof that the bridge is good. A train must pass over it to prove its strength.

Beyoncé is musically why I do what I do. She's an inspiration, she's incredible. I just love her.

All privileges based on wealth, and all emnity to honest men merely because they are wealthy, are un-American.