I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness. Heaven knows that John the Baptist was not more eager to get all his fellow sinners into the Jordan than I to baptize all of mine in the beauty of God’s mountains.

Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.

A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.

A queer fellow and a jolly fellow is the grasshopper. Up the mountains he comes on excursions, how high I don’t know, but at least as far and high as Yosemite tourists.

I was raised in a religious environment, and my wife is one of the more religious people that I have ever known.

My religion encompasses all religions. I believe in God, I believe in the universe. I believe you are god, I believe I am god; I believe the earth is god and the universe is god. We’re all god.

I just think cities are unnatural, basically. I know there are people who live happily in them, and I have cities that I love, too. But it’s a disaster that we have moved so far from nature.

By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive.

There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.

Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.

He is lost who is possessed by carnal desire.

Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.

If it’s good music, it’s good music.

If God dropped acid, would he see people?

Here’s the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don’t find it anywhere else.

We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.

I have been chosen by God Almighty to be one of his messengers.

The best way to know God is to love many things.

When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It’s very simple.

Being beautiful is not so fun when you’re in a business with all men.

In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.

We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy.

It’s been wonderful for me, and I feel so privileged to have fans that are that loyal.

I am a Catholic, not so committed to the church, but to the idea of the Virgin, the female face of God.

So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.

You don’t look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.

Every day I try to be in communication with the universe in an unconscious way.

Peace is one of the most precious gifts God has promised His children.

As a sportsperson, the best thing is people recognising you and loving you for what you do. For me, glamour is 100 people in the hotel feeling happy to see you.

People who don’t know the true character of God – who don’t believe He is merciful, gracious and slow to anger – can never have a close, personal, intimate relationship with Him.

I’m honest enough to say I don’t know everything. You know, I don’t. I don’t understand all of God. I don’t understand, you know, some kind of why bad things happen.

Man takes his law from the Earth; the Earth takes its law from Heaven; Heaven takes its law from the Tao. The law of the Tao is its being what it is.

I’m just glad I was able to return to some of that innocence and beauty I had as a child when I started my own family, and my children brought me back some of that spirit.

In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.

To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. ‚Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after you.

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.

A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.

People say I look so happy – and I say, ‚That’s the Botox.‘

I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal and are often about finding ways of encouraging people to combine their efforts, their talents, their insights, their enthusiasm and their inspiration to work together.

Fashion is here to help make people look very important. If they have good taste and choose what suits them, I give them options on how they can do that. It’s always sexy, and it’s always with the same result: making women look fantastic.

I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.

We love things we love what they are.

Talent grips us. We are overtaken by the beauty of Michelangelo’s sculpture, riveted by Mariah Carey’s angelic voice, doubled over in laughter by the comedy of Robin Williams, and captivated by the on screen performances of Denzel Washington.

Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them.

From my perspective, I absolutely believe in a greater spiritual power, far greater than I am, from which I have derived strength in moments of sadness or fear. That’s what I believe, and it was very, very strong in the forest.

All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.

Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?

I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right; but it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation may be on the Lord’s side.

Many Tibetans sacrifice their lives.

The only answer to fear is faith in God, knowing He loves you unconditionally and individually.

In order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality common to us all. The sea, rains, necessity, desire, the struggle against death… these are things that unite us all.

Necessity is the mistress and guide of nature. Necessity is the theme and inventress of nature, her curb and her eternal law.

It was such a leap in my career when ‚Truman Show‘ came along. It’s always been a long process for me insofar as recognition goes, but that’s OK because you appreciate it when it comes.

The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man.

The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God’s handwriting.

The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.

My belief is that we were put into this world of wonders and beauty with a special ability to appreciate them, in some cases to have the fun of taking a hand in developing them, and also in being able to help other people instead of overreaching them and, through it all, to enjoy life – that is, to be happy.

Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.

It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?

When granted many years of life, growing old in age is natural, but growing old with grace is a choice. Growing older with grace is possible for all who will set their hearts and minds on the Giver of grace, the Lord Jesus Christ.