"You hear a lot about God these days: God, the beneficent God, the all-great God, the Almighty God, the most powerful God, the giver of life God, the creator of death. I mean, we're hearing about God all the time, so we better learn how to deal with it. But if we know anything about God, God is arbitrary."

"Don't matter how much money you got, there's only two kinds of people: there's saved people and there's lost people."

"True wisdom begins when you realize hope is the anchor of a weary soul."

"It is a enduring truth that love does not demand perfection; it embraces the authentic journey of growth — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature."

"The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is the reason he makes so many of them."

"Religion is just mind control."

"What we're putting forward is the most radical reform of the welfare state... for 60 years. I think it will have a transformative effect in making sure that everyone is better off in work and better off working rather than on benefits."