You cannot have a good character today and at the same time have a small mind and a little heart. You cannot have a good character today and be merely a petty reformer.

The world is now too small for anything but brotherhood.

Life is just a chance to grow a soul.

True religion, like our founding principles, requires that the rights of the disbeliever be equally acknowledged with those of the believer.

Let us be done with the notion that religion is confined to petty pieties and small constraints. All too often people who have possessed these pieties have wrought great evil.

Life must have its sacred moments and its holy places. We need the infinite, the limitless, the uttermost -- all that can give the heart a deep and strengthening peace.

A good character today is shaped by greatness, greatness in vision, greatness in courage, greatness in insight, greatness in purpose and devotion.

You can't find God before an altar if that is the only place you look for him.

There is a light that shines in the darkness, which is only visible there.

When I wait for only half a second, it all makes worth waiting for, Petra Cecilia Maria HermansWorldpoet 546September 1, 2016

Being famous is not the same as being important. A lot of important people aren't famous, and a lot of famous people aren't important.

The most striking thing about the rich is the gracious democracy of their manners -- and the crude vulgarity of their way of life.

Despair has been called the unforgivable sin-not presumably because God refuses to forgive it, but because it despairs of the possibility of being forgiven.

If a joke is too hard to visualize, I tell the young comics, then what the hell good is it?

Your best is whatever you can do comfortably without having a breakdown.

We were all given our opportunities to be ourselves. A little bit of ourselves.

We had this scene where I'm supposed to be bending over to get something. I thought it was kind of cute.

Because of empathy, we care more for, and devote far more resources to, someone who is familiar, from our country or our group, than a stranger.