It is one thing to believe and another to know.

The ultimate goal of humanity is knowledge.

Smartness without wisdom is stupidity.

I am an advocate of godliness, not of god.

Nature deemed God worthy and hence chose it as her slave to serve the humans appearing as the master.

Hard as it may sound, no god has saved anything or anyone in human history. It is the humans who have done so.

My mission is to make the external God of human society obsolete in front of humanity’s internal Godliness.

As a species, wise, harmonious progress is our mission.

Mystics reign where lacks true education.

Being a fool is a billion times better than being blinded by the illusion of intellect.

Keep in mind my friend, if an answer is not rational, then it is not an answer, but a delusion.

Communism will kill you quicker than a maraschino cherry ever will.

blue eyes so light that it looked like she sent them out to be bleached

As we keep or break the Sabbath Day we nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope by which man rises.

A novel makes it possible to understand not just events, but the people who control the events; not only their choices, but also their motives.

Keep practicing, even when you seem to be getting nowhere.

I am not to blame for putting forward, in the course of my work on science, any general rule derived from a previous conclusion.

Sometimes working on one painting will help solve a problem in another painting.

The good Lord doesn't tell you what His plan is, so all you can do is get up in the morning and see what happens next.

Hemingway sucks. If I set out to write that way, it would have been been hollow and lifeless because it wasn't me.

Every artist, as child of his age, is impelled to express the spirit of his age.