The Shroud was old, and regarded as special, and people believed in it. That could be enough to give it a kind of power, all by itself.

Sleep is God. Go worship.

Life would be unbearably dull if we had answers to all our questions.

So. You get handed a holy sword by an archangel, told to go fight the forces of evil, and you somehow remain an atheist. Is that what you're saying?

I had a vague memory of being that ridiculous at one time. Let he who hath never worn parachute pants cast the first stone.

There are things you can't walk away from. Not if you want to live with yourself afterward.

I'm dealing with a lot of scary things. I think you have to react to them. And you either laugh at them or you go insane.

Apocalypse is a frame of mind." [Nicodemus] said then. "A belief. A surrender to inevitability. It is a despair for the future. It is the death of hope.

I wouldn't burden any decent system of faith by participating in it... I'm not agnostic. Just nonpartisan. Theological Switzerland, that's me.

It came charging toward me, several hundred pounds of angry-looking monster, and I did the only thing any reasonable wizard could have done.I turned around and ran like hell.

Internet, " she said sagely. "Expanding the frontiers of adolescent knowledge.

My soul only knows my spirit.

I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance.

Our choices reflect the kind of person we are!

Thanksgiving is an attitude that must be rooted in the ‘gift of life’ if we ever hope to be thankful for the ‘gifts’ of life.

General Custer was a close observer and student of personal character.

There is nothing so slipperily alluring as sadness; we become sad in the first place by having nothing stirring to do; we continue in it, because we have found a snug sofa at last.

Acting's all about the confidence you exude, especially on film. I mean, nervousness isn't attractive in anyone, but a film camera will seek it out and punish you.

It's not to much fun to know yourself too well or think you do - everyone needs a little conceit to carry them through & past the falls.

If we measured success by longevity, then dinosaurs must rank as the number one success story in the history of land life.

Men seldom understand any laws but those they feel.