I've almost come to feel that it doesn't make much difference what you believe in - the thing that's important is a state of belief. It's much better to believe in nonsense than in nothing.

Resisted temptations become lost opportunities.

Riches make cowards of us.

Character is the best security.

All wars are crusades, or we're made to feel they are. That's just what's so wicked about them. We're made to feel - not think - and people can't think when they feel.

There's nothing in all the world as much fun as talk. When you're talking, that is, with the right person.

Curious, isn't it that "talking with the right people" means something so different from "talking with the right person"?

The trouble with education is that we always read everything when we're too young to know what it means. And the trouble with life is that we're always too busy to re-read it later.

Sentiment, crystallized, grows into sentimentality. It lost all spontaneity, which was the essence of feeling. It was dated--old-fashioned.

Character comes before scholarship.

All banks should be under government control. Deposits guaranteed, dividends reduced, officials turned into state servants taking their orders from Washington.

I learned a long, long time ago, that I could accomplish things in this place we call reality and yet still spend most of my time in the better reality of my mind.

Be true to yourself so you never regret anything you did.

The business and method of mysticism is love.

There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing.

I've gotten to work with some great people. I've been really lucky.

Bjork, I'd love to do something with her. I'd love to do some sort of crazy orchestral choir thing with her.

There is a phrase in French, which means 'to miss.' To pass by. To not be able to stop. You love someone and someone loves you, but it just can't work for different reasons.

I had always thought that the idea of love at first sight was one of those things invented by lady novelists from the South with three names.

Under this president, we have a government that has grown too big, too costly and now even more overbearing by forcing religious entities to abandon their beliefs.

If you want to see the real Saints, don't go to the Temples of the Religion, but go to the Temples of the Science!