To take sides with life and experience how we can transcend ourselves is a process that has many names and faces. Religion is one of those names.

With the disappearance of God the Ego moves forward to become the sole divinity.

Death is what takes place within us when we look upon others not as gift, blessing, or stimulus but as threat, danger, competition.

toleration of exploitation, oppression, and injustice points to a condition lying like a pall over the whole of society; it is apathy, an unconcern that is incapable of suffering.

Bible texts are best read with a pair of glasses made out of today's newspaper.

Religion does not confirm that there are hungry people in the world; it interprets the hungry to be our brethren whom we allow to starve.

If my hands are fully occupied in holding on to something, I can neither give nor receive.

What is important is not what someone is but what he is waiting for. Not the events of life but its possibilities.

A language that takes our emotions seriously and gives them real weight in our lives encourages us to think and be and act differently.

To be content with the world as it is is to be dead.

This is the purpose of theology. By it my life becomes clearer and more conscious.

There will always be someone, a friend, a relative, a co-worker even, just someone, who will be willing to try that bad thing with you. And they won’t judge you, so don’t worry about that.

Speech one may regret, Silence no sorrow begets, Humility be born before honour, Soft answer turns wrath’s corner

...the dead, being wiser than the living, know freedom is always better than revenge.

The Bible is worth all the other books which have ever been printed.

Basically, I'm a really bad interviewer. I love meeting celebrities, but then I get a bit bored. Once you meet them you thing, 'really, what an ordinary person'.

The Kiril Islands had changed hands more times than a good coin in a whorehouse.

None of the wives mention the security guards by the door, who will probably tackle us to the ground if we try to leave without our husbands.

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimagininative.

The breath, prayers, and libido of the fingertip must somehow be transferred to the neutral indifference of the key.

I never thought I was particularly talented, and to be honest with you, I still don't.