Sometimes I call myself a freelance, I can't see any one of the great religions as superior to others.

Compassion is not an option. It's the key to our survival.

Alas, all traditions lose their primal purity and we all fail our founders.

Important thing about myth is that it's not just something that you believe, a myth is essentially a program for action. And unless you translate a mythical story, or a doctrine out of the church, into practical action, it just remains incomprehensible. Rather like the rules of a board game which seem very sort of dull and complicated and incomprehensible until you pick up the dice and start to play, when everything falls into place.

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

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.

Let us bring something new to the table. Let us use our pain always to remember the others, bring them into the conversation, and get beyond the stereotypes and prejudices that create injustice all over the world.