Only after all the noise has spent itself do we begin to hear in the silence of our heart, the still, small, mighty voice of God.
We aren't people who believe that just because we're performers our opinions on everything need to be known.
You don’t have to be brave or a saint, a martyr, or even very smart to be an atheist. All you have to be able to say is “I don’t know”.
If you believe that there’s a heaven and hell. . . how much do you have to hate somebody to believe that everlasting life is possible and not tell them that?
I like movies that are scary, but I don't want them to be dirt dumb. I want a movie that gets my blood racing, makes me laugh, but also gives me something to think about, with maybe a little sexy thrown in. Hollywood doesn't make movies like that.
Religion cannot and should not be replaced by atheism. Religion needs to go away and not be replaced by anything. Atheism is not a religion. It's the absence of religion, and that's a wonderful thing.
Behaving morally because of a hope of reward or a fear of punishment is not morality.
The Sermon on the Mount. . . went straight to my heart. I compared it with the Gita. My young mind tried to unify the teaching of the Gita, the `Light of Asia' and the Sermon on the Mount. That renunciation was the highest form of religion appealed to me greatly.
Maybe people are finally tiring of watered down grunge rock on the radio.
I was not put here to be a background character in someone else's movie!
My hope for America and the activists is that they never, ever go back to sleep, and they keep fighting for social justice, equality, and decency.