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To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do. ”
One believes others will do what he will do to himself. ”
Prayer is an august avowal of ignorance. ”
A library implies an act of faith. ”
A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing. ”
Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book. ”
Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization. ”
And when I go to see plays, I marvel at how people can do that. I've done it all my life, but I still find it mystical. ”
The beautiful cannot be the way to what is useful, or to what is good, or to what is holy; it leads only to itself. ”
The more I'm here in L.A. talking to people, the more I believe that what I've been doing is right, and that's the belief that you have to judge a role from the character, by the script. ”