"I think that the proclamation of the Gospel is sometimes nearer to an atheistic point of view than to traditional religious attitudes."

“Life has to be dangerous.”

Source : "Alain Robert: 'French Spiderman' on his death-defying stunts". "Revealed" Interview, www.cnn.com. April 21, 2010.

“If we're interested in the continuation of the human experiment we need to focus on resilience and coping with change (whether natural or anthropogenic) rather than living as if God or nature has given us a nice, orderly, calm, Babbit-like existence.”

“The religion of Jesus Christ is neither new nor strange.”

“confidence is a choice ... to act, or to do, or to decide.”

“Right now if this preacher died he would go to heaven. Not because I spent years in the jungles and the Andes Mountains of Peru. Not because of piety, devotion or bible study. Not because of denominational affiliation, baptism, or participation in the Lord’s supper. If I died right now, I would go to heaven because two thousand years ago the Son of God shed His blood for this wretched man. And that is my hope.”

“To get over my divorce, I got a prescription to live at the Playboy Mansion for a while.”

Source : "James Caan: What I've Learned". Interview with Ross Johnson, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

“I can foresee no circumstance in which I would allow my name to be put forward for the leadership of the Conservative Party.”

“Beauty alters the grain of reality,”