There's nothing militant about Jesus. I don't read anything like that in any of the gospels. Peter drew his sword and cut off the servant's ear, and Jesus said, "Put back thy sword, Peter." But Peter has had his sword out and at work ever since.

You've got to find the force inside you.

If you really want to help this world, what you will have to teach is how to live in it.

The myth is the public dream and the dream is the private myth.

I think of compassion as the fundamental religious experience and, unless that is there, you have nothing.

The process of nature cannot be evil.

We have today to learn to get back into accord with the wisdom of nature and realize again our brotherhood with the animals and with the water and the sea.