I don't understand what the nature of God is. But I do have the feeling that I'm at some feet, and lucky to be there.

I have always believed in trying to be a good person and giving to the world, and treating others in a just, kind, merciful way.

I encounter a lot of prejudice and a lot of darkness. I have to negotiate constantly through situations that are uncomfortable or difficult or strange.

I think morality is more important than ever before. As we gain more power, the question of what we do with it becomes more and more crucial, and we are very close to really having divine powers of creation and destruction. The future of the entire ecological system and the future of the whole of life is really now in our hands. And what to do with it is an ethical question and also a scientific question.

We don't seek the painful experiences that hew our identities, but we seek our identities in the wake of painful experiences.

At the end of the day, will God be interested primarily in whether I have been kind and helped others, or in whether I was baptized and how?

If someone says: "I don't want to have a cochlear implant, because I want my child to grow up with a rich sense of deaf culture," he must acknowledge that the deaf culture that exists in the world today has a different scale than the deaf culture that's likely to exist in the world 50 years from now.