I experience God as the power of life, the power of love and the ground of being. I don't say that's what God is; I say that's my experience of God.

I do assert that one prepares for eternity not by being religious and keeping the rules, but by living fully, loving wastefully, and daring to be all that each of us has the capacity to be.

The church is like a swimming pool. Most of the noise comes from the shallow end.

I think one of the things we've got to look out for is human beings claiming that they know how God operates.

The view of the cross as the sacrifice for the sins of the world is a barbarian idea based on primitive concepts of God and must be dismissed.

I think that anything that begins to give people a sense of their own worth and dignity is God.

Was Judas Iscariot a figure of history? I do not think so. There is no mention of him in any source before the 8th decade.

All religion seems to need to prove that it's the only truth. And that's where it turns demonic. Because that's when you get religious wars and persecutions and burning heretics at the stake.

I don't want a God that would go around killing people's little girls. Neither do I want a God who would kill his own son.

I prepare for death by living.

You can't have a world where 50 percent of the people are dieting and 50 percent of the people are starving if you want stability.

I couldn't stand here, hanging on, when the very thing I held disappeared more with each passing day.

Death is the greatest goal of anyone. It is something no other living human can achieve

The infrastructure, institutions and social fabric of Venezuela are deteriorating, and people realize the Chavez government has been the problem, not the solution.

The dream - you never achieve it. The excitement of life lies in the hope, in the striving for something rather than the attainment.

I can be most colorful and inventive when I am angry.

There is oil in the Middle East there is rare earth in China.

I'm not the type of person to go into depression after defeat.

My collaborations have to be very positive. I will never work with a person I fight with.

Just remember, anger is always your enemy. You must keep your emotions in check. The moment you lose control of them, you lose the fight every time. (Takeshi)

All systems are oligarchy. There is no other.