The awe and dread with which the untutored savage contemplates his mother-in-law are amongst the most familiar facts of anthropology.

By religion, then, I understand a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior to man which are believed to direct and control the course of nature and of human life.

The custom of burning a beneficent god is too foreign to later modes of thought to escape misinterpretation.

Small minds cannot grasp great ideas; to their narrow comprehension, their purblind vision, nothing seems really great and important but themselves.

The second principle of magic: things which have once been in contact with each other continue to act on each other at a distance after the physical contact has been severed.

The advance of knowledge is an infinite progression towards a goal that ever recedes.

In point of fact magicians appear to have often developed into chiefs and kings.

It is a common rule with primitive people not to waken a sleeper, because his soul is away and might not have time to get back.

The question whether our conscious personality survives after death has been answered by almost all races of men in the affirmative.

The slow, the never ending approach to truth consists in perpetually forming and testing hypotheses, accepting those at which at the time seem to fit the facts and rejecting the others.

The man of science, like the man of letters, is too apt to view mankind only in the abstract, selecting in his consideration only a single side of our complex and many-sided being.

It all began with a bucket of eggs.

When it comes to poverty, there is no need to say anything. All we need to do is to help, the moment we encounter it.

One who trusts God at all costs will be rewarded at all costs.

Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.

Specialize in your particular field and try to know more about it than anyone else.

I just love making music. I always stay in the studio. Making music is my main focus.

I'm not shy about wearing a lot of makeup! But when I don't have to be done up, I just use a bit of concealer and maybe some lip balm.

I did theater at Carnegie, and in Pittsburgh and New York.

If the economy grows enough, fast enough, the tech system should be modernized so that the tax revenues rise fast enough also, and we should put more money in education.

At the end of the day, the only people a One Voice doctrine silences are those who should be the most loyal.