I regard irreligious people as pioneers. If there had been no priesthood the world would have advanced ten thousand times better than it has now.

... no man or woman should depend upon another for maintenance and necessaries. Family discord and social degradation will never end till each depends upon herself.

Don't complain that your life is boring. It is because you never did anything exciting.

You only really know what a smile means when you own the face behind it. Everyone else just sees the smile they expect it to be.

A scientist is only a human being, a particle in the whole universe. How can the observations and logic of a particle measure the life and size of a phenomenon that is limitless?

My job is to try and present the most fully-rounded character that I can, and bring a performance that people believe in.

Most people don't get to laugh, be free, dance, be surrounded by this energy. It's important to remind people to take that home. I want the world to start shifting [to] a more positive energy.

There aren't many other labels who I can say are that successful, and can give me as much as 4AD gives me, and still have such a great roster.

Hope, that risky, illustrious thing. It should have gone extinct by now, but we keep it alive.

The family is not just the basic unit of society; it is the basic unit of eternity.

When we refer to 'the biblical approach to economics' or the biblical response to politics' or 'biblical womanhood,' we're using the Bible as a weapon disguised as an adjective.

We take that which is unreal to be real and that which is real to be unreal.