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I'm not afraid to use Christ as an icon.

I regard Jesus, like the Buddha, as a figure with the power to shape our lives.

The Christ-symbol is of the greatest importance for psychology in so far as it is perhaps the most highly developed and differentiated symbol of the self, apart from the figure of the Buddha.

That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.

I heard one time that the Superman glyph is the second or third most recognizable symbol on Earth after the Christian cross.

Being a literature major, you know, I'm very familiar with the ways symbolism is used in our sort of mythic tales of society, so anyone who is consciously trying to pull that off I think is really interesting and clearly very smart.

Jesus isn't a logo, I'm not promoting some company, some brand. I'm just professing my faith.

The burden of being a constant symbol, of having to live up to a symbol of advancement, of progress, of being perfect in some way and always representing the destiny of an entire people - that is supposed to be invincibility. That's enormous.