It may be that religion is dead and if it is we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late.

I see no way out of the problems that organized religion and tribalism create other than humans just becoming more honest and fully aware of themselves.

Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of God.

I am very proud of this work because it is more about the meaning of the Easter Rising and its relationship to what this whole century has been about people liberating themselves freeing themselves.

Well we have a good working relationship with Microsoft at the development level. But let's not kid ourselves this is a company with enormous resources and talented people and there is a certain pride that comes along with that for them and for us.

We feel unsatisfied until we know ourselves akin even with that greatness which made the spots on which it rested hallowed and until by our own lives and by converse with the thoughts they have bequeathed us we feel that union and relationship of the spirit which we seek.

For me to stay healthy in a relationship the individuals have to nurture themselves.

The value of government to the people it serves is in direct relationship to the interest citizens themselves display in the affairs of state.

Women have demanded and gotten better jobs and more power. But the one thing we deserve is a better relationship with ourselves.

Every relationship that we have in our lives - our contact with each person place and event - serves a very special if yet to be realized purpose: They are mirrors that can serve to show us things about ourselves that can be realized in no other way.

The antagonisms between men and women express themselves in the most delicate phase of their life together - in their sexual relationship.

This is the most intimate relationship between literature and its readers: they treat the text as a part of themselves as a possession.

Sex is... perfectly natural. It's something that's pleasurable. It's enjoyable and it enhances a relationship. So why don't we learn as much as we can about it and become comfortable with ourselves as sexual human beings because we are all sexual?

Doctrinal rightness and rightness of ecclesiastical position are important but only as a starting point to go on into a living relationship - and not as ends in themselves.

I don't need anyone to rectify my existence. The most profound relationship we will ever have is the one with ourselves.

It's a life's journey of finding ourselves finding our power and living for yourself not for everyone else.

You want a culture where citizens are free to express themselves and so live in the openness necessary to the functioning of a successful economy? Israel has a free press much of it openly hostile to the parties in power.

It is through this mysterious power that we too have our being and we therefore yield to our neighbors even to our animal neighbors the same right as ourselves to inhabit this vast land.

The only power deserving the name is that of masses and of governments while they make themselves the organ of the tendencies and instincts of masses.

To free us from the expectations of others to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great singular power of self-respect.

The love of liberty is the love of others the love of power is the love of ourselves.

Next to enjoying ourselves the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves or more generally in the acquisition of power.

If those in charge of our society - politicians corporate executives and owners of press and television - can dominate our ideas they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves.

What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves without revelation admit the existence within you of anything but a power unknown to you of feeling and thinking.