Piety is a discipline of the will through respect. It admits the right to exist of things larger than the ego, of things different from the ego.

The modern state does not comprehend how anyone can be guided by something other than itself. In its eyes pluralism is treason.

The scientists have given [modern man] the impression that there is nothing he cannot know, and false propagandists have told him that there is nothing he cannot have.

Man is constantly being assured today that he has more power than ever before in history, but his daily experience is one of powerlessness.

[I]f we feel that creation does not express purpose, it is impossible to find an authorization for purpose in our own lives.

It will be found that every attack upon religion, or upon characteristic ideas inherited from religion, when its assumptions are laid bare, turns out to be an attack upon mind.

In the mist of Difficulty lies Opportunity.

I don't want to let my life as a woman pass me by. There's a time to work, there's a time to be young and crazy, and there should be a time to enjoy motherhood. I'm actually looking forward to that.

Youll never see a good performance out of me, in terms of a character, when the camera isnt rolling.

You can't be funny unless you're tragic, and you can't be tragic unless you're funny.

It's our destiny to explore. It's our destiny to be a space-faring nation.

See them demons and them omens staring at you, mind control, they want your soul. If he don't see a dollar, somebody visiting Satan

You may be real, but you're still stuck in a book.

I might be a Cuban American, but I'm also an Afro-Cuban American.

Why should we tell kidnappers, murderers, and embezzlers their rights? If they don't know their rights, they shouldn't be in the business.

There is probably no greater anxiety in life than going home to visit your mother for Christmas.