“The world has never lacked for horrifying examples; but I do not believe that these examples are meant to be used as justification for our own crimes.”
“Though we do not wholly believe it yet, the interior life is a real life, and the intangible dreams of people have a tangible effect on the world.”
“If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.”
"A journey is called that because you cannot know what you will discover on the journey, what you will do, what you will find, or what you find will do to you."
“The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.”
“I conceive of my own life as a journey towards something I do not understand, which in the going towards, makes me better. I conceive of God, in fact, as a means of liberation and not a means to control others. Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war, love is a growing up.”
"You have to decide who you are, and force the world to deal with you, not with its idea of you."