I don't care if it's Twilight or Fifty Shades or War and Peace

In the last analysis, most of our difficulties come from losing contact with our instincts, with the age-old forgotten wisdom stored up in us.

Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.

It would be unjust, and moreover Utopian, for Shakespeare to direct the shoemakers' union. But it would be equally disastrous forthe shoemakers' union to ignore Shakespeare.

As you get older, though, you realize there are fire extinguishers. You do have an ability to control the flames.

Remember that thought is speech before God.

Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.

I have not come up with anything original. It needs a better brain than mine! I have done what I can do in taking Dawkins' idea and extending it.

From Him are all name and form; all the animals and men are from Him. He is the one Supreme. He who knows Him becomes free.

An artist is the magician put among men to gratify - capriciously - their urge for immortality.

I spent my life working before I started band. I worked construction, landscaping. I worked in kitchens, cleaned dishes. I worked demolition.