The real joy of life is in its play. Play is anything we do for the joy and love of doing it, apart from any profit, compulsion, or sense of duty. It is the real joy of living.

The Kingdom of God is not a matter of getting individuals to heaven, but of transforming the life on earth into the harmony of heaven.

History is never antiquated, because humanity is always fundamentally the same.

We never live so intensely as when we love strongly. We never realize ourselves so vividly as when we are in full glow of love for others.

It is for us to see the Kingdom of God as always coming, always pressing in on the present, always big with possibility, and always inviting immediate action

Christianity is in its nature revolutionary

The belief in a satanic kingdom exists today only where religious and theological traditions keep this believe alive.

Every generation tries to put its doctrine on a high shelf where the children can not reach it.

Theologians have felt no hesitation in founding a system of speculative thought on the teachings of Jesus; and yet Jesus was never an inhabitant of the realm of speculative thought.

In a few years all our restless and angry hearts will be quiet in death, but those who come after us will live in the world which our sins have blighted or which our love of right has redeemed.

Whoever sets any bounds for the reconstructive power of the religious life over the social relations and institutions of men, to that extent denies the faith of the Master.

Understanding that quitting is never an option, leaves winning as the only option.

Nothing is more dreadful than a cold, unimpassioned indulgence. And love infallibly becomes cold and unimpassioned when it is too lightly made.

To me, intolerance leads down a dreadful path that the world sometimes seems to be going to.

Gettin' good players is easy. Gettin' 'em to play together is the hard part.

I think you have a case of either 'testitis' or 'I Didn't Do My Homework Syndrome'. It's common in the Spring.

You're hard to please: so many friends and so few cares, and can't make yourself content.

I love Françoise Hardy. She's my dream, she's just amazing.

Anyhow, even though I have this home theater, I love going out to the movies. Movies are meant to be experienced together.

The best thing on translation was said by Cervantes: translation is the other side of a tapestry.

Singing has nothing to do with the affairs of this world: it is not for the law. Singers are merry, and free from sorrows and cares.