“People who have no hold over their process of thinking are likely to be ruined by liberty of thought. If thought is immature, liberty of thought becomes a method of converting men into animals.”

Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile.

I have seen the movement of the sinews of the sky, And the blood coursing in the veins of the moon.

If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion.

Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders.

Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions…

The immediacy of mystic experience simply means that we know God just as we know other objects.

It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self.

The possibility of a scientific treatment of history means a wider experience, a greater maturity of practical reason, and finally a fuller realization of certain basic ideas regarding the nature of life and time.

But the universe, as a collection of finite things, presents itself as a kind of island situated in a pure vacuity to which time, regarded as a series of mutually exclusive moments, is nothing and does nothing.

God is not a mathematical entity or a system of concepts mutually related to one another and having no reference to experience.

Thus passing through the infinite varieties of space we reach the Divine space which is absolutely free from all dimensions and constitutes the meeting point of all infinities.

The Ego is partly free. partly determined, and reaches fuller freedom by approaching the Individual who is most free: God.

The ultimate purpose of religious life is to make this evolution move in a direction far more important to the destiny of the ego than the moral health of the social fabric which forms his present environment.

Though the terror of the sea gives to none security, in the secret of the shell. Self preserving we may dwell.

But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.

Be not entangled in this world of days and nights; Thou hast another time and space as well.

The idea of having different characters is really just to get the storyline across, you know? Coming from one particular character makes, to me, the story boring.

I was interested in the ideas – freedom, free speech and having control of my own life. That’s why I became a Tory.

The death anxiety of many people is fueled … by disappointment at never having fulfilled their potential.

I have my ups and my downs like anyone. All I can do is be me.

You either have to be great or you have to be bad to get a good pick.

I really don’t like talking about money. All I can say is that the Good Lord must have wanted me to have it.

If you’re going through a divorce and you’re in a comedy you have to find some way to find the funny side of things even though you might not want to.

Being raised in Iowa, I know what a cornfield does for me, and I wanted to have that same kind of feeling for the Ramapo Mountains.