"We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain."

"How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god."

"Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe."

"You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes."

"If God existed, and if He cared for humankind, He would never have given us religion."

"The military infrastructure grew me. My faith in God is important, my belief in my country is important, my relationship to my family is important, the things that Mom and Dad tell you growing up are important."

"My religion centers in different areas than what's considered conventional religion."

"And when the world is created, it is created in such a way that those eternal objects of God's loving wisdom become actualities - interacting with one another, relating to God in the finite realm."