Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth unseen, both when we sleep and when we awake.

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.

Peter De Vries

When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money.

Ray Bradbury

I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world.

Georges Duhamel

Son, are you happy? I don't mean to pry,but do you dream of Heaven?Have you ever wanted to die?

Tim Burton

American energy is the energy of violence, of free-floating resentment and anxiety unleashed by chronic cultural dislocations which must be, for the most part, ferociously sublimated. This energy has mainly been sublimated into crude materialism and acquisitiveness. Into hectic philanthropy. Into benighted moral crusades, the most spectacular of which was Prohibition. Into an awesome talent for uglifying countryside and cities. Into the loquacity and torment of a minority of gadflies: artists, prophets, muckrakers, cranks, and nuts. And into self-punishing neuroses. But the naked violence keeps breaking through, throwing everything into question.

Susan Sontag

We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest.

Thomas Jefferson

The wise man regulates his conduct by the theories both of religion and science. But he regards these theories not as statements of ultimate fact but as art-forms.

J.B.S. Haldane

The ugly and stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play. If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat. They live as we all should live-- undisturbed, indifferent, and without disquiet. They never bring ruin upon others, nor ever receive it from alien hands. Your rank and wealth, Henry; my brains, such as they are-- my art, whatever it may be worth; Dorian Gray's good looks-- we shall all suffer for what the gods have given us, suffer terribly.

Oscar Wilde

Women have talent and intelligence but, due to social constraints and prejudices, it is still a long distance away from the goal of gender equality.

Pratibha Patil

Next to the Word of God, music deserves the highest praise. The gift of language combined with the gift of song was given to man that he should proclaim the Word of God through Music.

Martin Luther King Jr.

A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer.

Doris Lessing

As soon as you are trying to be funny or dramatic, that's when things start feeling fake and boring.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt