But the more insidious enemies of religion recognize but deplore religion's remarkable influence in the world order.

You do not need to justify asking questions. But if you think you have found answers, you do not have the right to remain silent.

A religion shapes the world of its believers by identifying questions that need answers and providing answers that people 'know' to be true. ­

Do not let people put you down. Believe in yourself and stand for yourself and trust yourself.

Religion is something people do together to face urgent problems and to resolve them by appealing to truths that seem self-evident to them.

Individual insanity is immune to the consequences of collective insanity

When some one mortal yet eternal human merely being relying on precisely nothing but the audacious love of his Maker, calls on Him to part the Heavens, well, we are undone.

I had to go outside. I had to let the element of chance in.

Attention equals importance equals value equals ego. Or, more realistically, Attention equals success.

Simplicity is a great element of good breeding.

Communism is born out of misery, and if the West does not show more understanding, those people will take up arms and turn to others, that is the Soviet Union.

Any of the great fights you've ever seen, Gomez and Pintor was just better.

I like the way you can stretch things out and leave a huge amount of space that, on a record, would feel like silence. I enjoy the possibilities.

You should only be doing the thing that makes you happy. Not just surface happy.

People aren't grapes - you can't weigh them in a bunch, but I guess it's easier than dealing with people as individuals.