The highest art is always the most religious; and the greatest artist is always a devout man. A scoffing Raphael or Michael Angelo is not conceivable.

Wine is the drink of the gods, milk the drink of babes, tea the drink of women, and water the drink of beasts.

Brahma is the great Creator, Life a mystic drama; Heaven, and Earth, and living Nature Are but masks of Brahma.

All powers, all laws, are but the fair Embodied thoughts of God.

The wise man of Miletus thus declared the first of things is water

Converse with men makes sharp the glittering wit, But God to man doth speak in solitude.

Order is the law of all intelligible existence.

All things to all men only fools will tell, Truth profits none but those that use it well.

A fair face without a fair soul is like a glass eye that shines and sees nothing.

I was supposed to be powerless, and as a result they failed to see that I possessed claws.

Keep quiet and people will think you a philosopher.

It's about paying attention to the little things, the details... Constantly rediscovering your partner, knowing there's a way out of any crisis.

All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.

I really love the traditional aspects of Judaism. My wife is born and raised a Catholic and I enjoy celebrating those rituals as well. I am very spiritual but not in any way religious, no.

What really makes science grow is new ideas, including false ideas.

George Jones is a national treasure and should be treated accordingly. A unique style so often emulated even inadvertently.

Monarchy hardens into despotism. Aristocracy contracts into oligarchy. Democracy expands into the supremacy of numbers.

The life of a scholar seldom abounds with adventure.

Without risk, faith is an impossibility.