“Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.”

“Owning pipelines, people, products, or even intellectual property is no longer the key to success. Openness is.”

“The very nature of the objective universe turns any spiritual faith and ideals into courageous acts of subjectivity, constantly vulnerable to intellectual negation.”

“A kernel of truth lurks at the heart of religion, because spiritual experience, ethical behavior, and strong communities are essential for human happiness. And yet our religious traditions are intellectually defunct and politically ruinous. While spiritual experience is clearly a natural propensity of the human mind, we need not believe anything on insufficient evidence to actualize it.”

“It is our own thoughts that hold the key to miraculous transformation.”

“He had never believed that spirituality had to be anemic or aesthetic.”