We have a tendency to condemn people who are different from us, to define their sins as paramount and our own sinfulness as being insignificant.

There's always an element of self delusion among people who believe they ought to be President. There's an underestimation of your opponent and an overestimation of your own abilities. This is compatible with being rich and powerful, the idea that we were blessed by God because we deserve to be blessed.

I am a nuclear physicist by training and a deeply committed Christian. I don't have any doubt in my own mind about God who created the entire universe. But I don't adhere to passages that so and so was created 4,000 years before Christ, and things of that kind.

I hate to see complacency prevail in our lives when it's so directly contrary to the teaching of Christ.

Wherever life takes us, there are always moments of wonder.

A fundamentalist can't bring himself or herself to negotiate with people who disagree with them because the negotiating process itself is an indication of implied equality.