Opposite to godliness is atheism in profession, and idolatry in practice. Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind, that it never had many professors.

Acting is just a way of making a living, the family is life.

As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution.

Engineering training deals with the exact sciences. That sort of exactness makes for truth and conscience. It might be good for the world if more men had that sort of mental start in life even if they did not pursue the profession.

Liberty doesn’t work as well in practice as it does in speeches.

Volleyball, I could be pretty good. After a few practices I could be that striker, or whatever they call it.

The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions.

To the man who reads ‚Scouting for Boys‘ superficially, there is a disappointing lack of religion in the book. But to him who tries it in practice, the basic religion underlying it soon becomes apparent.

Well, we can’t say any more than we can say there is no god, there is no afterlife. We can only say there is no persuasive evidence for or argument for it.

I do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do I serve any.

Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.

‚Via Dolorosa‘ is the only thing I have ever acted in my life, professionally, and I’ll never act again.

If atomic bombs are to be added as new weapons to the arsenals of a warring world, or to the arsenals of nations preparing for war, then the time will come when mankind will curse the names of Los Alamos and of Hiroshima.

The reproduction of mankind is a great marvel and mystery. Had God consulted me in the matter, I should have advised him to continue the generation of the species by fashioning them out of clay.

I think sim racing helps. I have improved in areas and do it whenever I need to improve. You don’t feel G-force and those things are probably the biggest things, that and the fear factor which you feel when you drive. Therefore, when I go on to the track I’m better.

The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.

The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.

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

To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.

Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it.

Communism has decided against God, against Christ, against the Bible, and against all religion.

Communication is a skill that you can learn. It’s like riding a bicycle or typing. If you’re willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of evry part of your life.

In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professors is routine.

Many novice real estate investors soon quit the profession and invest in a well-diversified portfolio of bonds. That’s because, when you invest in real estate, you often see a side of humanity that stocks, bonds, mutual funds, and saving money shelter you from.

A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.

Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.

One of the things that I’m very excited about with New Shepard, which is our suborbital tourism vehicle, is using that to get a lot of practice. One of the equilibria that we’re at today with space launch is that we don’t get to practice enough.

I have been practicing archery for a long time; a bow and arrow helps me to unwind.

To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.

Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children.

God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.

To you I’m an atheist; to God, I’m the Loyal Opposition.

We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.

To be a monk is to have time to practice for your transformation and healing. And after that to help with the transformation and healing of other people.

In Buddhist culture, offering food to the monk symbolizes the action of goodness, and if you have no opportunity to support the practice of spirituality, then you are somehow left in the realm of darkness.

To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.

Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: ‚War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.‘

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can’t practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.

The more you practice, the better you get, the more freedom you have to create.

I just kept touring and touring until it became second nature to go onstage, perform, and sing.

What, man, defy the devil. Consider, he’s an enemy to mankind.

Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

Few professors would dare to publish research or teach a course debunking the claims made in various ethnic, gender, or other ‚studies‘ courses.

At some point in time, you definitely have to go drama. Not to say that you’re going drama just because everybody else does it. You do it to challenge yourself. You do it because, naturally, in the profession of acting, you want to show growth. You want to say that you take the craft seriously.

My mother knew how to read music and everything. But I just kinda learned off of records. And so, I was listening to records and I’d play ‚em over and over.

Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.

Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.

This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it.

God may exist, but science can explain the universe without the need for a creator.

Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

You don’t see too many atheists on the deathbed. They all start cramming then.

Acting is a nice childish profession – pretending you’re someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.

Dancers are always striving for perfection. A great dancer never achieves it: you always want to do another turn, a higher jump,a more difficult acrobatic jump.

In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.

National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right.

With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine.