"The word spiritual, not the word religious, is the key"

"Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them"

"The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum"

"I have an almost religious zeal... not for technology per se, but for the Internet which is for me, the nervous system of mother Earth, which I see as a living creature, linking up"

"A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom"

"An intellectual is going to have doubts, for example, about a fundamentalist religious doctrine that admits no doubt, about an imposed political system that allows no doubt, about a perfect aesthetic that has no room for doubt"

"My own personal, moral, spiritual, religious, etc. beliefs don't oppose same-gender marriage"

"I think any spiritual experience that's worthwhile is not about ego and it will humble you in some way. And also, a Zen monk once said to me, 'If you're not laughing, then you're not getting it.'"

"I believe that dance communicates man's deepest, highest and most truly spiritual thoughts and emotions far better than words, spoken or written"

"Coincidences are spiritual puns"

"Life - a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay"