The greatest crime is not developing your potential. When you do what you do best, you are helping not only yourself, but the world.

It is less hurtful to compel a man to marry someone whom he does not love than to follow a religion in which he does not believe.

God is too large to be housed under one roof.

The sovereign power of all civil authority is founded in the consent of the people.

When they have opened a gap in the ... wall of separation between the Garden of the Church and the wildernes of the world, God hath ever ... made his Garden a Wildernesse.

The human body heals itself and nutrition provides the resources to accomplish the task.

When in doubt, use nutrition first.

That cannot be a true religion which needs carnal weapons to uphold it.

Men's consciences ought in no sort to be violated, urged, or constrained.

A false worship will not hurt the civil state if the worshipper breaks no civil law.

Sometimes the truth is stupid.

For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use to be anything else.

Most scientists are without exception adorably quirky, and one of the ways of making it more accessible was to try to get readers interested in the person.

What makes you really come together under pressure is determination and focus and toughness.

I've always just followed my own course, whatever I found the most interesting to me at the moment. I've never had a real plan of, "I want to get from here to there, and I've got to do this."

Bridesmaids proved there was an audience there that we knew was there. It proved that women go to the movies. They want to see story about themselves.

History is indeed the witness of the times, the light of truth.

Life's too short to sit through songs you don't love.

I am a fancy dress grump, to be honest.

I was interested in the mystical element of humor - was humor part of creation? Is God laughing at us, or with us?

American Horror Story on cable now, it is terrific. There has to be room to re-invent.