A disbelief in God does not result in a belief in nothing; disbelief in God usuallyresults in a belief in anything.

Those who have suffered, who have known poverty or oppression, are generally the most prone to kindness. Perhaps it is well to endure some misery if only to learn this lesson.

The only atheism is the denial of truth.

Some people would be discontented in Paradise, others ... are cheerful in a graveyard.

Life is magical. There is something wonderful in being alive, in having within one's self all sorts of possibilities.

So this is happiness, that journeyman.

We must rejoice when love is great, and pardon its excess, for love is the staff of life, and life without love is life in vain.

Pessimism is carefully cultivated in some intellectual circles, as if it were a precious plant that the human race could not afford to lose.

Vanity is easily forgiven, for we are all vain, and even as we laugh at the weakness of others we feel that their vanity has touched the responding chord of our own.

There are tides of justice surging to the unknown shores of right; Stars of truth that seek a setting in the dark, untutored night.

Tact is not a small thing; in the battle of life it is more powerful than a bludgeon.

Don't say I didn't warn you. One of these days you're going to take in a stray that'll really break your heart.”~Ed

Everyone on the bus can laugh at me, and I'll be like, 'Screw you guys: I look good!'

The future for me is already a thing of the past - You were my first love and you will be my last

But what is coffee, but a noxious berry, Born to keep used-up Londoners awake?

I feel like we put all the weight on the president, rather than distributing the weight to all of the elected officials.

If you train yourself to listen to your intuition and to follow its bidding, you will greatly increase your percentage of success in life.

I terribly miss - we all miss, I think - somebody like the great producer Irving Thalberg. He had a foot in both camps: He understood us creative people. And he understood the money people.

I've never much been interested in doing films that no one gets to see.

Love is beyond time or rather love is both time and space but all focused on one single constantly evolving point-the Aleph.

The authors of the gospels were unlettered and ignorant men and the teachings of Jesus have come to us mutilated, misstated and unintelligible.