It's a great event to get outside and enjoy nature. I find it very exciting no matter how many times I see bald eagles.

Fundamentalists are not friends of democracy. And that includes your fundamentalists in the United States.

Beethoven's string quartets express pain itself; it is not MY pain.

In the past some of the most influential Jewish, Christian and Muslim theologians, such as Maimonides, Aquinas and Ibn Sina, made it clear that it was very difficult to speak about God, because when we confront the ultimate, we are at the end of what words or thoughts can do.

The only way to show a true respect for God is to act morally while ignoring God’s existence.

Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their religion to endorse their ego, their identity.

From the Rabbis of the early Talmudic age I learned that there is never a last word on God. There's, you always continue to question. Even God himself could be questioned and you can keep arguing with one another and there will be no end to this conversation about the divine because no human expression of God can be ultimate.