“A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority.”

To know a person’s religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.

Nowhere at present is there such a measureless loathing of their country by educated people as in America.

The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

The greatest weariness comes from work not done.

Take man’s most fantastic invention- God. Man invents God in the image of his longings, in the image of what he wants to be, then proceeds to imitate that image, vie with it, and strive to overcome it.

Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.

The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.

Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.

A passionate obsession with the outside world or the private lives of others is an attempt to compensate for a lack of meaning in one’s own life.

Language was invented to ask questions.

An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.

Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.

Every successful person has had failures but repeated failure is no guarantee of eventual success.

Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.

Unlike the pattern which seems to prevail in the rest of life, in the human species the weak not only survive but often triumph over the strong. The self-hatred inherent in the weak unlocks energies far more formidable then those mobilized by an ordinary struggle for existence.

Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.

I don’t know what it feels like not to have a great family support system – I was lucky to have that.

Knowing how you actually want to feel is the most potent form of clarity that you can have.

I am the kind of tired that does not need a bed but rather, hope.

I’ll never fall in love again it’s like having two souls at the same time.

It feels like I’ve been singing since I was born, and I have so many great memories with my family and friends centred around music.

It is not that we have too little time to do all the things we need to do , it is that we feel the need to do too many things in the time we have.

When Marvin Gaye made his music, he evoked this feeling that would reach everybody.

How does it feel to be a woman minister? I don’t know; I’ve never been a man minister.