"You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do."

"Your problem is how you are going to spend this one odd and precious life you have been issued. Whether you're going to spend it trying to look good and creating the illusion that you have power over people and circumstances, or whether you are going to taste it, enjoy it and find out the truth about who you are."

"Your experiences will be yours alone. But truth and best friendship will rarely if ever disappoint you."

"A whole lot of us believers, of all different religions, are ready to turn back the tide of madness by walking together, in both the dark and the light - in other words, through life - registering voters as we go, and keeping the faith."

"Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future."

"I thought perhaps it should be recognized that religious people, including fundamentalists, are quite intelligent, many of them are highly educated, and they should be treated with complete respect."

"By a lie, a man... annihilates his dignity as a man."

"Humility is not weakness in leadership; it is the cornerstone of unassailable respect. Such is the immutable nature of understanding — an essential principle for the reflective life."