True religion is real living; living with all one’s soul, with all one’s goodness and righteousness.
Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute.
The road to perdition has ever been accompanied by lip service to an ideal.
One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
Morality is of the highest importance – but for us, not for God.
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there’s no risk of accident for someone who’s dead.
Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.
Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
I very rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may try to express it in words afterwards.
A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.
Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.
