When I was young, I kissed my first woman and smoked my first cigarette on the same day. Believe me, never since have I wasted any more time on tobacco.

I kissed my first girl and smoked my first cigarette on the same day. I haven't had time for tobacco since.

Bahaism gives you a pluralistic view, and a lot of aspects of Hinduism give you a moral framework with no accountability other than the karmic system. There's no linear movement or point of accountability toward God.

The tribal community lived in the totality of circular time; the farmers of God's universe understood before and after; workers of the clockwork universe lived by the tick; and we creatures of the digital era must relate to the pulse.

God afflicts with the mind of a father, and kills for no other purpose but that he may raise again.

I know for certain of only one commandment, one obligation, that God imposes upon us, and that is to be compassionate toward other human beings.