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.

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

When you learn about the teaching and the practice of another tradition, you always have a chance to understand your own teaching and practice.

I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.

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.

Communism to me is one-third practice and two-thirds explanation.

All mankind love a lover.

Revenge, lust, ambition, pride, and self-will are too often exalted as the gods of man’s idolatry; while holiness, peace, contentment, and humility are viewed as unworthy of a serious thought.

The proper study of Mankind is Man.

The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.

The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.

General consultant to mankind.

Differences exist in practice and organization between the Lord’s Church and man-made institutions.

I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice.

Many of us have been running all our lives. Practice stopping.

When you have enough understanding and compassion in you, then that amount of understanding and compassion will try to express itself in action. And your practice should help you to cultivate more understanding and compassion.

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist.

When you practice gratefulness, there is a sense of respect toward others.

Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we’re atheist. Our existence is beyond our understanding. No one has an answer.

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

It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handling that could make it ridiculous, or too unlike the original to be believed any longer.

Pilots take no special joy in walking. Pilots like flying.

Meditation is a vital practice to access conscious contact with your highest self.

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

Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the skeptic.

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

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

You throw batting practice, you warm up pitchers, you sit and cheer. You do whatever you have to do to stay on the team.

I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I am, which is my life, the power to create.

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

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

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

If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.

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

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.

The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.

When you campaign and have to participate in so many debates just to the win the nomination of your party, you’ve had a lot of practice. You get to figure out as you go from one debate to another where you made your mistakes. By the time you get to the big debate you’re pretty polished.

Some artists just ruin their voices because they don’t know any better.

All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.

A state arises, as I conceive, out of the needs of mankind; no one is self-sufficing, but all of us have many wants.

That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.

Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.

Dancing in high heels is kind of tough. I learn the dances without the heels, and then we add them. We just practice, and I get used to it. My feet hurt really badly at the end of the shows, but it’s fun. While it’s happening it’s fun. I feel tall.

You can’t hire someone to practice for you.

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

We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.

I’m much more comfortable and confident running out on the field in front of 70,000 people instead of standing in front of a camera trying to say some lines. The people who do that as a profession are very talented because it’s certainly not easy.

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

I don’t join the New Atheists. So, for example, I wouldn’t have the arrogance to lecture some mother who hopes to see her dying child in Heaven – that’s none of my business, ultimately. I won’t lecture her on the philosophy of science.

I don’t think even ungodly people realize what a society would be like that had no godly influence at all.

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.

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

I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.

Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.

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

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.