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

Huge imbalance in power has resulted in the alienation, rage, fury, and awful amoral terrorism that has erupted and is erupting at the present time. And in order to counter this, we need to make the compassionate voice of religion and morality a dynamic force in our world.

A theology should be like poetry, which takes us to the end of what words and thoughts can do.

Mythology and science both extend the scope of human beings. Like science and technology, mythology, as we shall see, is not about opting out of this world, but about enabling us to live more intensely within it.

My greatest solace is my study. If I am deprived of my study, I can become lost, unhappy and unhinged.

There is a danger in monotheism, and it's called idolatry. And we know the prophets of Israel were very, very concerned about idolatry, the worship of a human expression of the divine.

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