"No machine can replace the human spark: spirit, compassion, love and understanding."

"I dont care who the audience is looking at just as long as they're looking at the stage."

"You can't leave footprints in the sands of time by sitting on your butt. And who wants to leave buttprints in the sands of time?"

"I'd rather have 30 minutes of wonderful than a lifetime of nothing special."

"We grow because we struggle, we learn and overcome."

"Discretion is being able to raise your eyebrow instead of your voice."

"Whatever God's dream about man may be, it seems certain it cannot come true unless man cooperates."

"Those who seek consolation in existing churches often pay for their peace of mind with a tacit agreement to ignore a great deal of what is known about the way the world works."

"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."

"Angels dancing on the head of a pin dissolve into nothingness at the bedside of a dying child."

"Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion."