Politicians are played by what they say and they don't do

Religion isn't the opium of the people, it's the hypocrisy.

Sow but don't rush to gather the fruits

Better a friend to all his weight in gold.

The best incentive for an artist are the harshest criticism

The best way to feel family is being part of it.

Sometimes animals are more human than people and other times people are more animal than animals

Sometimes animals are more human than men and other times men are more animals than animals

The easiest way is not always the best way

Many great failures lead to the ultimate success

Who is the most worthy of admiration, musician or audience?Probably the musician will tell that his audience and the musician that his audience

You can be in your room and lead people. Just develop your potentials and publicize them and you will see people looking for your product. That is influence

The ancient Hebrews did not write the name of God. I often wish the Christians would follow suit, as never was a word more misused in writing and speaking than the name of the Lord.

Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.

If I don't get at least one e-mail every ten minutes, I feel unloved. Even junk mail makes me feel seen. Sad, I know. Sigh.

But herein lies the rub: Christianity has been on a long-term trend of decline in every Western cultural context that we can identify.

For now the poet cannot die, Nor leave his music as of old, But round him ere he scarce be cold Begins the scandal and the cry.

I hate flying, taking my clothes off, and going through the whole security.

... I want the world to know that people like me who have returned from the half-world of mental oblivion are not forever contaminated. We have been sick.

I rebel against death, yet I know that it is how I respond to death's inevitability that is going to make me less or more fully alive.

People must do what they must do. We all don't think alike or act alike and it's wrong to-to judge others by ourselves.