Historically, it is quite doubtful whether Christ ever existed at all, and if He did we do not know anything about Him.

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

An Honest politician will not be tolerated by a democracy unless he is very stupid ... because only a very stupid man can honestly share the prejudices of more than half the nation.

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.

We have in fact, two kinds of morality, side by side: one which we preach, but do not practice, and another which we practice, but seldom preach.

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Cruel men believe in a cruel god and use their belief to excuse their cruelty. Only kindly men believe in a kindly god, and they would be kindly in any case.

Your skull encloses your brains. But never forget that anytime you open your mouth to talk, you have opened your mind for the entire world to see what is hidden in there!

I have nothing to hide except for the fact i'm broken inside.

We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck and ask anyone the house is never burgled and the ship never goes down.

Seem like a lot of people wear shoes they can't walk in.

I become more and more inclined to sink the minister in the man, and abandon my present calling in toto as a profession... to create a living religion in landscape painting.

People can very quickly have a very poor self-image. It doesn't take much.

When you do a film, you get picked up in a car, lunch is free. Theatre is really hard, and you get absolutely no money.

My mother spoke of Christ to my father, by her feminine and childlike virtues, and, after having borne his violence without a murmur or complaint, gained him at the close of his life to Christ.

I like seeing someone that can sing jazz and then flip over and sing a pop song and then sing a rock song.

Faith is the subject of the head. Devotion is the subject of the heart and meditation connects both.