It's not going to be a straight upward progression, but there's no doubt that consciousness is growing. Prejudices die regularly in the Western world. We don't burn witches anymore.

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.

Morality may consist solely in the courage of making a choice.

I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity.

The NSA buys data from private companies, so the private companies are the source of all this stuff.

Why read the Book of Mormon? Because angels do not come on trivial errands.

Only when you are relaxed can you see what's going on.

I accept myself for who I am as a woman and a mother and this has given me the most confidence.

My movies are, more or less, very short. I'm terrified of boring an audience.

It's easy to be a backseat driver. It's even easier to be a backseat driver when you're not even in the same car.

A time will come when you're going to be numerous but your impact in the world will be like nothing

We must dare to invent the future