True power lies not in the spotlight, but in the influential shadows.

Belief about God is religion. Belief in God is faith.

Science explains the how.Philosophy explains the why.Free-thinkers need both.

The process of dying is falling asleep. The process of death is waking up.

Freemasonry is a spiritual practice that good men of every spiritual practice can agree upon.

Kill someone on the behalf of yourself, you get deemed a murderer. Kill someone on behalf of your Government, you get deemed a hero.

Never confuse fighting for one's government with fighting for one's country.

When it comes to matters of dealing with the Government, one has to go through red tape just to get to the actual red tape.

An ideologue is one who places agenda above truth.

Politics is a game played by the rich with the lives of the poor.

Mankind will never know peace until the last politician is strangled to death with the entrails of the last priest.

In one way or another, every mission that I have ever set out on to rescue myself is yet another mission that I end up needing to be rescued from. Hence, there is God.

Through movies, I have met nearly everyone I have wanted to, except Woody Allen.

It's the hardest thing to come up with an hour of material that can consistently keep people laughing.

Any serious man or woman in search of spiritual ideas will find a surprising challenge and an authentic source of inspiration and intellectual nourishment in the writings of Paul Brunton.

I've never seen a surface that I think is more seductive in image making.

When I stood up there as a pinch hitter, I honestly believed I was the best hitter in the game. That's the only attitude to have.

The body is the soul's poor house or home, whose ribs the laths are and whose flesh the loam.

I grew up in trailer houses in New Mexico, Arkansas, Texas and Oklahoma.

The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.

Use a screwdriver instead of a hammer. Try to untighten the nut with your hand. Utilize the path of least resistance first.