The stars in the sky are really other suns like our own, around which orbit other planets. (paraphrase)

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.

You don't know what love is until someone lives with you while you write a book.

To create different work, one needs new tools and materials

I am grieved for my children—and boy’s in particular—that this modern age is emasculating men under the guise of “the best interest of the children”.

If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought.

Every time you walk a mile to church and carry a Bible with you, you preach a sermon a mile long.

If you cannot be positive, then at least be quiet.

A long time ago, when I was a young dancer in New York City, I fell in love with Jimmy Dean and he fell in love with me.

If I gave you any thought I probably would.

Whoever increases the sum of human joy, is a worshiper. He who adds to the sum of human misery, is a blasphemer.

You try to hold on to some notions you might have had before, that this will somehow work out, this is a spell that will lift or be broken.