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

If we could view Muhammad as we do any other important historical figure we would surely consider him to be one of the greatest geniuses the world has known.

There is nothing in Islam that is more violent than Christianity.

Compassion is the key in Islam and Buddhism and Judaism and Christianity. They are profoundly similar.

Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying in a devastating, disgraceful, helpless death.

We are most creative and sense other possibilities that transcend our ordinary experience when we leave ourselves behind.

Every fundamentalist movement I've studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut, visceral level that secular liberal society wants to wipe out religion.