In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments - there are consequences.

The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.

Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.

The hands that help are better far than lips that pray.

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.

Who can over estimate the progress of the world if all the money wasted in superstition could be used to enlighten, elevate and civilize mankind?

In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous.

So, ministers say that they teach charity. This is natural. They live on alms. All beggars teach that others should give.

As more people become more intelligent they care less for preachers and more for teachers.

To hate man and worship God seems to be the sum of all the creeds.

The destroyer of weeds, thistles, and thorns is a benefactor whether he soweth grain or not.

I’m a holiday Christian at best and I’d never given much thought to demons. They were an adult version of the boogieman hiding in every kid’s closet.

Think I have made a terrible mistake going to college. Have decided to become a shepherd and spend my days tending to flocks of goats

It's about the music and that's it. I'm not an entertainer. But I do entertain people, see what I mean?

The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.

I have never in any way found the idea of celebrity appealing. Anonymity is much more appealing.

My greatest debt will always be to the movie-going public of yesterday and today, without whose love and devotion I would have had no story to tell.

My responsibility as an artist is to turn up at the page or the piano or the microphone. The rest is up to God.

The chief business of seventeenth-century philosophy was to reckon with seventeenth-century science... the chief business of twentieth-century philosophy is to reckon with twentieth-century history.

Solitude cherishes great virtues and destroys little ones.

In the quiet moments, the discoveries are made.