Any moral system that is detached from God, no matter how noble and sincerely held, will likewise fail.

Sigmund Freud, the father of psychiatry and an atheist, theorized that one’s attitude toward one’s father largely shaped one’s attitude toward God.

Without God, right and wrong are just personal beliefs. Personal opinions. I think shoplifting is okay, you don’t.

Unless there is a God, all morality is just opinion and belief. And virtually every atheist philosopher has acknowledged this.

A good book will surely become an event in your life.

You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible in a few words, and writing briefly takes far more time than writing at length.

Lucifer represents life, though, progress, civilization, liberty, independence. Lucifer is the Logos, the Serpent, the Savior.

Nixon is one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides.

I didn't know I was a conservative when it didn't matter to me growing up.

O latest born and loveliest vision far of all Olympus' faded hierarchy.

He had the unlucky capacity many men have of seeing and believing in the possibility of goodness and truth, but of seeing the evil and falsehood of life too clearly to take any serious part in it.

I feel it now: there's a power in me to grasp and give shape to my world I know that nothing has ever been real without my beholding it. All becoming has need me.

When we hate someone we make them more powerfull than they are.

It definitely deserved an Oscar, but not a Golden Globe.