Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind, and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded pro

Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind, and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.]

Books have a vital place in our culture. They are the source of ideas, of stories that engage and stretch the imagination and most importantly, inspire.

Think of success. Dream of Success. Live for success.

There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance, and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake.

Consciousness grows independent of the ordinary senses.

I consider myself a storyteller, not really even an actor. I consider myself a storyteller.

Lust and self-mutilation are closely related impulses. There are also self-mutilators among knowers: they do not want to be creators under any circumstances.

Loyalty of the law-making power to the executive power was one of the dangers the political fathers foretold.

Jackass: The Movie is great. I think it's in the tradition of physical comedy, which I'm really interested in. Its relationship to gravity, and how gravity acts on the body

I only think well when my mind is calm.

When you get a man, you have to nurture him. Treat him like a king. If you put that little work in in the beginning, it pays off.