"Knowledge without know-how is sterile. We use the word 'academic' in a pejorative sense to identify this limitation."

"Our deeds follow us, and what we have been makes us what we are."

"If a man has ten good qualities and one bad one, to look at the ten and forget the one, and if a man has ten bad qualities and one good one, to look at the one and forget the ten."

"A leader is someone who steps back from the entire system and tries to build a more collaborative, more innovative system that will work over the long term."

"Forgive thyself little, and others much."

"If you want to go somewhere, goto is the best way to get there."

"The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible."

"For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing."

"The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself."

"The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending, then having the two as close together as possible."

"It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing."

"I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is."