The soul is not the body and it may be in one body or in another, and pass from body to body.

Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.

I beg you, reject antiquity, tradition, faith, and authority! Let us begin anew by doubting everything we assume has been proven!

The Divine Light is always in man, presenting itself to the senses and to the comprehension, but man rejects it.

The fools of the world have been those who have established religions, ceremonies, laws, faith, rule of life.

If the first button of one's coat is wrongly buttoned, all the rest will be crooked.

With luck on your side, you can do without brains.

Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind.

All things are in the Universe, and the universe is in all things: we in it, and it in us; in this way everything concurs in a perfect unity.

What can be more stupid than to be in pain about future things and absent ones which at present are not felt?

The gems of philosophy are not less precious because they are not understood.

No one had ever told me that whites were supposed to sing one kind of music and blacks another - I sang what I liked in the only voice I had.

Don't be on the side of the angels, it's too lowering.

The fastest way to your own happiness is to make another happy.

I don't think of myself as being funny. But life takes strange turns.

The greatest achievement of the civil-rights movement is that it has restored the dignity of indignation.

The Neighbours cast is like a second family.

I've always been somebody that it takes me longer to learn things, but once I learn them... I'm like a quarterback that plays best in the fourth quarter.

I haven't played a lot of wallflowers but I have played women who have been vulnerable.

I love people and I love to sing, and that's what keeps me going.

I'm not a big fan of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. It's just a personal thing, not an ego thing.