“When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion. - Abraham Lincoln”

“Religion isn't the problem; ignorance and hatred are.”

“When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.”

“If I do good, I feel good...If I do bad, I feel bad”

“This morning I awoke to the realization that I'd been living my life within a parenthetical statement. It was a pathetic situation, more so since I'd suddenly become aware of how trapped I was within my own punctuation.”

“In the end I believe the essential spirit that animates those places animates me. If that spirit is God, then I found God...If that spirit is life, then I found life...If that spirit is awe, then I found awe. Part of me suspects it's all three...all I had to do to discover that spirit and the resulting feeling of humility and appreciation was not to look or listen or taste or feel. All I had to do was remember, for what I was looking for I somehow already knew.”

“I think that is what film and art and music do; they can work as a map of sorts for your feelings.”