Take Bach or Schubert: Their music was dedicated to God but filled and shaped their worldly lives. If you are a committed atheist, you lean back and miss all the richness of that history.

You cannot spend two thousand years trying to understand God and then simply abandon the question and declare that we’re not interested in it anymore.

I believe that the most important condition for faith is sensitivity to beauty.

It is only true love when you have no choice. Love is the most highly valued disease that is identified by the symptom of You-can´t-help-it.

As an atheist, you cannot fully make sense of the music, you have no explanation for the perennial motion and rhythm.

Those who use language and have nothing but language to express themselves live in a cage that cannot feel comfortable.

Everything direct is positive, everything indirect is negative.

People who don't pay attention to the question of justification are often rather uninteresting, in my opinion. I am most fascinated by characters who struggle with the demands of justification.

If you cannot live without justification, you cannot live; period. And the path towards it is the path of language.

Once you have awakened to the question of faith, you cannot simply return to your everyday agenda like a committed atheist could. You cannot retreat to the comforts of atheism.

You cannot simply discard God like a box that has been emptied.

The women who inspired this play deserved to be smacked across the head with a meat ax and that, I flatter myself, is exactly what I smacked them with.

I know that the vitriol and hyperbole that exists online, and the anonymity, can be deadly because it's cloaked in negativity and it's brutal sometimes.

To its great credit, Wimbledon has been a leader in bringing about change and improvement in the sport.

What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.

America can't succeed unless you succeed. That is why I am running for president of the United States.

People naturally follow leaders stronger than themselves.

I'm sure most parents read to their children to explain what certain things mean. So books are a good way to convey a message to anybody. Everybody reads.

A horse is wonderful by definition.

You can say we're trying too hard or that we didn't try hard enough, but we're not trying at all; we're just doing what we do.

I'm not a member of an organized party. I'm a Democrat.