You were born with two things: existence and opportunity, and these are the raw materials out of which you can make a successful life.

Should one continue to base one's life on a system of belief that--for all its occasional wisdom and frequent beauty--is demonstrably untrue?

The Bible says that the the Lord thy God is a jealous God. But if you are omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent, eternal, and the creator of all that exists, of whom could you possibly be jealous?

Christianity does not remove you from the world and its problems; it makes you fit to live in it, triumphantly and usefully.

The old style hypocrite was a person who tried to appear better than he actually was; the new style hypocrite tries to appear worse than he or she is.

In our age, the problems that needs to be solved are growing in number and business of life is overpowering

I see everything as creative material. If I pick up a shell of a song that I wrote 10 years ago, all that matters is the reality of that material as it's living today.

I don't see myself as an icon, because I just wear whatever I want to wear.

Only the poor can know all the disadvantages of poverty. Only the rich can know all the disadvantages of wealth.

It’s funny, most people can be around someone and then gradually begin to love them and never know exactly when it happened

To conceal ignorance is to increase it. An honest confession of it, however, gives ground for the hope that it will diminish some day or the other.

Analysis can tell us what is required, but it cannot make us act.

The peculiar dignity of men seen eating alone in restaurants on national holidays

Love, that is day and night - love, that is sun and moon and stars, Love, that is crimson, sumptuous, sick with perfume, no other words but words of love, no other thought but love.

The best way to travel abroad is to live with the locals.