Faith is a euphemism for prejudice and religion is a euphemism for superstition.

If one billion of you watch and do not intercede as one million of you assent to the one thousand who participate in the murder of a child, then one billion of you are a billion times guilty.

You may have tangible wealth untold. Caskets of jewels and coffers of gold. Richer than I you can never be -I had a mother who read to me

Fire is one of our best friends in this cold universe. Put some wood in it to show your gratitude.

I think, clearly, we got to work closely with China to resolve the serious problems we have, and I worry about Putin and his military adventurism in the Crimea and the Ukraine.

I never dreamed I would be producing the Oscars. That was a huge deal for me.

We need to discover once again that we have something to die for, for it is only when we have something to die for that we have something to live for.

Mathematics is being lazy. Mathematics is letting the principles do the work for you so that you do not have to do the work for yourself

Baptism is not the work of man but of Christ, and this sacrament is so holy that it would not be defiled, even if the minister were a murderer.

If I wake up during a dream I can usually go back to sleep and finish the story.

For whenever unbaptized persons die confessing Christ, this confession is of the same efficacy for the remission of sins as if they were washed in the sacred font of baptism.