Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all.

What comes, is called.

All formal dogmatic religions are fallacious and must never be accepted by self-respecting persons as final.

Heresy makes for progress.

Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.

He who influences the thought of his times, influences all the times that follow. He has made his impress on eternity.

To teach superstitions as truth is a most terrible thing.

To rule by fettering the mind through fear of punishment in another world is just as base as to use force.

Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend.

Less power to religion, the greater power to knowledge

As a rule, the human mind gets attached to possessions very firmly. They don’t want to lose anything. They hold on to the little possession and can’t see the big possibilities.

Music-a country one can inhabit only in music.

Humor brings insight and tolerance.

Counterfeit charm is worse than none at all.

I love so many different genres. I love crime films - and unusual coming-of-age pieces.

When you find great songs, and somehow you get a spark in a little way, it can become brand new.

I can't play guitar, but I can sure make it howl.

When entertainment works the best, you're creating an apparatus to convey emotions.

I don't want to say I'm never going to direct again, but directing's hard work.

All it takes is one generation to brainwash a population and convince them that reality doesn't exist