[V]irtue is not news, and virtuous men, like happy nations, have no history.

[I]ndeed, one hears, in early Christian theology, as many echoes of Persian dualism as of Hebrew Puritanism or Greek philosophy.

[S]hame is a child of custom rather than of nature.

There are not many things finer in our murderous species than this noble curiosity, this restless and reckless passion to understand.

For what is philosophy but an art - one more attempt to give "significant form" to the chaos of experience?

[R]eligion arises not out of sacerdotal invention or chicanery, but out of the persistent wonder, fear, insecurity, hopefulness and loneliness of man.

Fear of death, wonder at the causes of chance events or unintelligible happenings, hope for divine aid and gratitude for good fortune, cooperated to generate religious belief.

All science is a charted ignorance and belongs to Maya.

If I cannot brag of knowing something then I brag of not knowing it at any rate brag.

You can't complain about the pressures, the paparazzi, the madness. Because that is the job. I've always understood that's the deal.

Good programmers know what to write. Great ones know what to rewrite (and reuse)

The muffled syllables that Nature speaks Fill us with deeper longing for her word; She hides a meaning that the spirit seeks, She makes a sweeter music than is heard.

A lot of happiness can be brought to the mentally distraught by a little understanding.

I think a nap or a rest overnight is great. But who needs three days of rest? Please! The second day, you might die.

A constant interrogation.

I've learnt that there's nothing in my day to day life or anything that I do that is in any way aimed at changing how I'm perceived or how I'm presented; it's completely impossible.

For pitty, Sir, find out that Bee Which bore my Love away I'le seek him in your Bonnet brave, I'le seek him in your eyes.

Too many church services start at eleven sharp and end at twelve dull.