Love is the fart Of every heart It pains the man when 'tis kept close, And others doth offend, when 'tis let loose.
I do not condone hostility toward any church simply to vent personal malice or umbrage.
The greatest crime is not developing your potential. When you do what you do best, you are helping not only yourself, but the world.
But who is to decide who truly fears the Lord? The magistrate has no power to enforce religious demands. The laws of the First Table of the Ten Commandments are not regulations for a civil society or a political order. They belong to the realm of religion, not politics.
It is less hurtful to compel a man to marry someone whom he does not love than to follow a religion in which he does not believe.
The sovereign power of all civil authority is founded in the consent of the people.
God is too large to be housed under one roof.
Anybody who claims to read the entire paper every day is either the world's fastest reader or the world's biggest liar.
The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it.
The last thing I want to turn into is a fat Hollywood jerk. I was brought up without much money and I was happy. I don’t think that I will strive for money or success and end up greedy or big-headed. That only leads to unhappiness. I can still be down-to-earth and do this job as long as I enjoy it.
It seems to me that one ought to rejoice in the fact of death-- ought to decide, indeed, to earn one's death by confronting with passion the conundrum of life. One is responsible to life: It is the small beacon in that terrifying darkness from which we come and to which we shall return. One must negotiate this passage as nobly as possible, for the sake of those who are coming after us.