Whoever said that one cannot be moral without being religious never had morals in in the first place.

Belief about God is religion. Belief in God is faith.

Science explains the how.Philosophy explains the why.Free-thinkers need both.

The process of dying is falling asleep. The process of death is waking up.

Freemasonry is a spiritual practice that good men of every spiritual practice can agree upon.

Kill someone on the behalf of yourself, you get deemed a murderer. Kill someone on behalf of your Government, you get deemed a hero.

Never confuse fighting for one's government with fighting for one's country.

When it comes to matters of dealing with the Government, one has to go through red tape just to get to the actual red tape.

An ideologue is one who places agenda above truth.

Politics is a game played by the rich with the lives of the poor.

True power lies not in the spotlight, but in the influential shadows.

Relief is a great feeling.It’s the emotional and physical reward we receive from our bodies upon alleviation of pain, pressure and struggle. A time to bask in the lack of the neg

Passionate—that means to live for the sake of living. But one knows that you all live for sake of experience. Passion, that is self-forgetfulness. But what you all want is self-enrichment.

I've always liked New York, as I like towns with an edge and New York has a European feel, so when I came to play music here in the '80s it was a surprise to me.

In some departments of our daily life, in which we imagine ourselves free agents, we are ruled by dictators exercising great power.

I never think that a film should answer questions for you. I think it should make you ask a lot of questions.

To see a thing clearly in the mind makes it begin to take form.

The idea that any performer type is owed anything is a joke to me.

Not indolence but congenial work is man's Divinely allotted portion.

As a memoirist, I strive for veracity.

There's a flip side to having prominent public intellectuals, which is that they start meddling in politics and often with quite disastrous results.