Few are there that will leave the secure seclusion of the scholar's life, the peaceful walks of literature and learning, to stand out a target for the criticism of unkind and hostile minds.

No one can fail to see that the power of the Church among large numbers in many communities is today diminishing, or has already ceased.

The Ethical Society, therefore, is like a Church in maintaining, and emphasizing the importance of maintaining the custom of public assemblies on Sunday.

The office of the public teacher is an unenviable and thankless one.

I know when you do things systematically, non-stop, and repetition, that's how you make things happen in your life. It's the same thing in faith.

Our lives are the only meaningful expression of what we believe and in Whom we believe. And the only real wealth, for any of us, lies in our faith.

God, I'd love to do a big commercial movie that made a lot of money and whose plot was interesting too.

My religion would be a gentle faith that believed in the sacredness of leisure. Napping as a form of prayer.