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.

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.

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.

God has no other hands than ours.

Greatness means setting out to make some difference somewhere to someone in someplace.

Half of the world population is dying from poverty and hunger and still you think you are not rich enough.

Inculcating the various competing - competing, note - falsehoods of the major faiths into small children is a form of child abuse, and a scandal.

Please don't smile like that. Your heart is full of feelings that you've kept to yourself. Don't laugh as if you don't know anything.

I love acting with all my heart and I love music with all my heart.

I grew up with six brothers. That's how I learned to dance - waiting for the bathroom.

Humanitarian convictions are the linchpins of our salvation, and these an artist must champion.

A colour is a physical object as soon as we consider its dependence, for instance, upon its luminous source, upon other colours, upon temperatures, upon spaces, and so forth.

I'm not very good at lying.

I'm not a role model to my kids. They're a role model to me.