God himself culminates in the present moment, and will never be more divine in the lapse of all the ages.

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.

Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.

It is remarkable how long men will believe in the bottomlessness of a pond without taking the trouble to sound it.

How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.

Be courageous enough to learn from failures and bold enough to begin anew.

I live off a motto that says, 'yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery'. I have goals and agendas. Where ever I'll be tomorrow, that's where I'll be.

To give your life over to something else outside of you, that's love.

All information is treated equally; only an accurate argument will work.

My pictures really finish themselves.

I would be at home reading, because I felt so disconnected from humanity.

Our internal state determines our experience of our lives; our experiences do not determine our internal state.

I have drive, for sure. You have to. It's a tough business; there are a lot of actresses and not a lot of great roles. I don't want to complain because I'm so grateful.

I was a walking, talking hunk of human poop.

Marxism is now a world faith and must be allowed to enter into a continuous dialogue with other world faiths, including religious faiths