Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one's actions.

Philosophy may be defined as the art of asking the right question...awareness of the problem outlives all solutions. The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.

God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.

The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one's own tradition with reverence for different traditions.

In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.

Never once in my life did I ask God for success or wisdom or power or fame. I asked for wonder, and he gave it to me.

Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method