You don't see something until you have the right metaphor to perceive it.

You never know who's going to be in the audience. You never know who is going to be hearing that piece for the first time, and you never know who is going to be hearing that piece for the last time.

When we all sing with one voice, the world will stop and listen.

Success lasts only three seconds. After that you're the same as you were before you had it.

Satan and all his agents, with all their combined strength and subtilty, cannot separate one soul from Christ.

In theory it may seem all right to some, but when it comes to being made the instrument of the Lord's vengeance, I myself don't like it.

There's no future in being poor.

I was never really a character actor - I was a leading man who was always cast as a character. I wanted to be Jack Nicholson or Jean Gabin.

I don't want to write every week, it's too much trouble, and I shall only write when I want something. If you think I'm sick when I don't write, you can send for me to come and tell you.

I was taught how to walk but I did not master the cheating steps of others.

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You can cultivate taste, as you can the intellect. Full understanding whets the appetite and desire, and, later, sharpens the enjoyment of possession.

And the basic sort of thrust of Star Trek being about equality and tolerance and things I believe in deeply.

I think that there are these two very different sides to my relation to the Bible: one, my professional life; the other, a more private concern, interest and fascination with the Bible.

Consciousness is the greatest movie-maker in the whole world.

Obama said he went to Libya because of his conscience. Did anyone ever wrestle with his conscience and lose?

Or whatever politically correct spiritual representation of universal goodness you happen to believe in.

Don't wait to find solid ground. Dance in emptiness.

'The Portrait of Dorian Grey' beautifully articulates how the altruistic part of ourselves clashes with our essentially narcissistic state.