...the need to overawe people and demand obedience from them is powerful and seductive. It is a part of that world that the kingdom of heaven is not of.

It is no longer a question of a Christian going about to convert others to the faith, but of each one being ready to listen to the other and so to grow together in mutual understanding.

Stillness within one individual can affect society beyond measure.

God has graced every tradition with insight into the divine mystery, from the most primitive to the most sophisticated-each has a gift to bring to the world.

I suddenly saw that all the time it was not I who had been seeking God, but God who had been seeking me. I had made myself the centre of my own existence and had my back turned to God.

The main theme of the Bible is the restoration of humanity and, through humanity, of the whole of creation to its original harmony.

Above all we have to go beyond words and images and concepts. No imaginative vision or conceptual framework is adequate to the great reality.

This is criterion by which the Church is to be judged, not by the forms of its doctrine or ritual, but by the reality of the reality of the love which it manifests.

The one thing which you have to abandon unconditionally is your self.

I had made myself the center of my own existence and had my back turned to God.

Faith goes up the stairs that love has built and looks out the windows which hope has opened.

Truly creative people care little about what they have done, and a lot about what they are doing.

Each person on this planet is inherently intrinsically capable of attaining "dizzying heights" of happiness and fulfillment.

I am content that the work that I've done is wonderful.

Weather can kill you so fast. The first priority of survival is getting protection from the extreme weather.

We misread the Fifth Amendment [of Constitution] and have been misreading it for the past three decades.

No broken hearts, no broken necks.

In life some people trip and some fall but some take that trip and make a beautiful dance out of it.

I get inspired when I look at Tom Lennon, who did Reno 911! for six seasons while writing huge movies and directing, and also doing other pilots; he did that FX pilot, the Star Trek thing.

...If our houses, or clothes, our household furniture and utensils are not works of art, they are either wretched makeshifts, or, what is worse, degrading shams of better things.