To hate man and worship God seems to be the sum of all the creeds.

Who can over estimate the progress of the world if all the money wasted in superstition could be used to enlighten, elevate and civilize mankind?

The destroyer of weeds, thistles, and thorns is a benefactor whether he soweth grain or not.

And why does this same God tell me how to raise my children when he had to drown his?

Theology is a superstition—Humanity a religion.

Not one of the learned gentlemen who pretend that the Mosaic laws are filled with justice and intelligence, would live, for a moment, in any country where such laws were in force.

Speaking the unspeakable. As a leader, you need to not just listen to what’s being said, but more importantly, what's not being said.

You make me come alive- too alive. It's breathless, like a disaster. Ravishing, like crossing over into the desert and losing your bearings. Nothing's the same again.

Gravity is a response to geometry.

I get to thinking about my life, and it sometimes makes me want to make it interesting.

The courage to be is the most difficult thing for any human being.

Science "says" nothing. People say things and knowledge changes.

The giving up of (a belief in) witchcraft is in effect the giving up of (a beilief in) the Bible.

Suddenly the staggering love bursts away from me like milk from a smashed glass.

If you go in and audition for roles rather than just be offered them, then you kind of get a chance to kind of discover that you can do something that you didn't think you could do.

You wouldn't ask Rodin to make an ugly sculpture, or me to make a film with an ugly woman.