Music. A meaningless acceleration in the rhythm of celestial experience.

The more often he feels without acting, the less he will be able ever to act, and, in the long run, the less he will be able to feel.

She's the sort of woman who lives for others - you can tell the others by their hunted expression.

For the Present is the point at which time touches eternity.

All mortals tend to turn into the thing they are pretending to be. This is elementary

If I, being what I am, can consider that I am in some sense a Christian, why should the different vices of those people in the next pew prove that their religion is mere hypocrisy and convention?

A moderated religion is as good for us as no religion at all—and more amusing.

The Future is, of all things, the thing least like eternity. It is the most temporal part of time--for the Past is frozen and no longer flows, and the Present is all lit up with eternal rays.

I do not expect old heads on young shoulders.

The claim to equality, outside of the strictly political field, is made only by those who feel themselves to be in some way inferior.

I believe this not in the sense that it is part of my creed, but in the sense that it is one of my opinions. My religion would not be in ruins if this opinion were shown to be false.

Give life a purpose to pursue.

Nothing can bring joy in your life except yourself.

A friend in need becomes always a friend in need if you help him once......

I wouldn't record any song that I didn't like.

If you're respectful by habit, constantly honoring the worthy, four things increase: long life, beauty, happiness, strength.

You get out what you put in. If you want more, give more.

One certainly has a soul; but how it came to allow itself to be enclosed in a body is more than I can imagine.

TV is gratifying in the long-term. We [writers] find ourselves knowing who we can go to for a laugh, or who we can go to for a good emotional moment, and then milking those things.

The Christian god is a being of terrific character - cruel, vindictive, capricious and unjust.

Choose to achieve perfection. We won't achieve it because perfection is impossible. But by pursuing perfection, we will achieve excellence.