The spiritual element, the really important part of religion, has no concern with Time and Space, temporary mundane laws, or conduct.

Stay the course, light a star, Change the world where'er you are.

On the contrary, woman is the best equipped fighting machine that ever went to battle.

Organized Christianity has probably done more to retard the ideals that were its founder's than any other agency in the world.

All religions have periods in their history which are looked back to with retrospective fear and trembling as eras of persecution, and each religion has its own book of martyrs.

There is something mean in human nature that prefers to think evil, that gives a willing ear and a ready welcome to calumny, a sort of jealousy of goodness and greatness and things of good report.

A woman's beauty is one of her great missions.

I meant to do my work today But a brown bird sang in the apple tree And a butterfly flitted across the field And all the leaves were calling me.

All roads indeed lead to Rome, but theirs also is a more mystical destination, some bourne of which no traveller knows the name, some city, they all seem to hint, even more eternal.

In their work, then, as in their play, men and women are more and more coming to share with each other as comrades, and really the fun of life seems in no wise diminished as a consequence.

A critic is a man created to praise greater men than himself, but he is never able to find them.

We fill our lives with meaning by serving endlessly and by learning to transcend our consciousness to a higher consciousness.

Everyone has secrets, Lou, ” she says. “Everyone should be allowed their secrets. You can never know everything about a person. You’d go mad trying to.

You teach kids how to succeed when they successfully foil the educational system.

I find acting conservatories really important. I've gone to four different ones, and all of them provided totally different tools for me.

We all have only one life to live on Earth, and through television we have the choice of encouraging others to demean this life or to cherish it in creative, imaginative ways.

Learning how to be agreeable is the key to learning self-control.

We wanderers, ever seeking the lonelier way, begin no day where we have ended another day; and no sunrise finds us where sunset left us.

My God, the religious right will not acknowledge what a merciful person Jesus was.

When something's hard, smiling helps us in the end, and it becomes fun.

The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.