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No one can travel your own road for you; you must travel it for yourself. My faith in this stems from my childhood. I grew up in a family with a system of religious beliefs handed down to me.

Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage.

The road to the sacred leads through the secular.

I think there's a path cut for us, a destination mapped out. Everyone ends up where they're meant to be, and how they got there doesn't really matter.

It's impossible to map out a route to your destination if you don't know where you're starting from.

All the faith and good will in the world is wasted without direction.

I think that we are at a point in our country where we're trying to decide what role should religion play in the political arena.

What is especially important is addressing the question of how religion can be enforced through political means and what can be done to create a political environment that, on the one hand, acknowledges the role of religion in society, while on the other hand does not impose one religion on the populace at the expense of all others.

As we've lost this idea of pilgrimage, we've lost this idea of human beings walking for a very, very long time. It does change you.