The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.

There is always another way to say the same thing that doesn’t look at all like the way you said it before. I don’t know what the reason for this is. I think it is somehow a representation of the simplicity of nature.

I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.

One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.

The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

The ancients recommended us to sacrifice to the Graces, but Milton sacrificed to the Devil.

I think that the Bible teaches that homosexuality is a sin, but the Bible also teaches that pride is a sin, jealousy is a sin, and hate is a sin, evil thoughts are a sin. So I don’t think that homosexuality should be chosen as the overwhelming sin that we are doing today.

Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog.

The Christian’s Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.

The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.

Hell is full of musical amateurs.

First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.

There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.

This is my Bible. I am what it says I am. I have what it says I have. I can do what it says I can do.

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.

I’m rather kind of old school, thinking that when an artist does his work, it’s no longer his… I just see what people make of it.

Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.

I keep a hotel room in my town, although I have a large house. And I go there at about 5:30 in the morning, and I start working. And I don’t allow anybody to come in that room. I work on yellow pads and with ballpoint pens. I keep a Bible, a thesaurus, a dictionary, and a bottle of sherry. I stay there until midday.

When I grew up, the Devil was a reason why I had a headache or the Devil was the reason I got mad today. We always blamed the Devil. I think today when I say the Enemy, I like to make it broader. Sometimes the Enemy can be our own thoughts.

Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.

It’s a good thing we don’t get all the government we pay for.

Satan, the leader or dictator of devils, is the opposite, not of God, but of Michael.

All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.

I tried being reasonable, I didn’t like it.

I like nonsense; it wakes up the brain cells.

There are two great forces, God’s force of good and the devil’s force of evil, and I believe Satan is alive and he is working, and he is working harder than ever, and we have many mysteries that we don’t understand.

I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.

When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

I believe the scripture says that being gay is a sin.

I have never sat down and studied the Bible, never consciously echoed its language, and am, in reality, as ignorant of it as most brought-up Christians. All of the Bible that I use in my work is remembered from childhood and is the common property of all who were brought up in English-speaking communities.

I used to read five psalms every day – that teaches me how to get along with God. Then I read a chapter of Proverbs every day and that teaches me how to get along with my fellow man.

The last thing the devil wants you to do is be an obedient Christian.

Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil’s propagation.

I walk every day, and I look at the mountains and the fields and the small city, and I say: ‚Oh my God, what a blessing.‘ Then you realise it’s important to put it in a context beyond this woman, this man, this city, this country, this universe.

The smallest feline is a masterpiece.

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.

The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.

When written in Chinese, the word ‚crisis‘ is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.

To know the laws is not to memorize their letter but to grasp their full force and meaning.

I’m not concerned about all hell breaking loose, but that a PART of hell will break loose… it’ll be much harder to detect.

A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we’re children, but we bear the scars all our life. Whether they’re scars of beauty or scars of ugliness, it’s pretty much in the eye of the beholder.

My old drama coach used to say, ‚Don’t just do something, stand there.‘ Gary Cooper wasn’t afraid to do nothing.

As soon as I hear a sound, it always suggests a mood to me.

There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible that in any profane history.

The course of true love never did run smooth.

I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I’d invented it, because it is very true.

When I was a young man, Dirac was my hero. He made a breakthrough, a new method of doing physics. He had the courage to simply guess at the form of an equation, the equation we now call the Dirac equation, and to try to interpret it afterwards.

Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.

The people who were honored in the Bible were the false prophets. It was the ones we call the prophets who were jailed and driven into the desert.

Some people keep God in a Sunday morning box and say, ‚Hey, I did my religious duty.‘ That’s fine, but the scripture says to pray without ceasing. And I think that means all through the day you’re talking to God. Even if it’s in your thoughts.

The Bible says today is the accepted time, today is the day of salvation… But there will come a time when it will be too late for you.

History is written by the victors.

Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.

A person hears only what they understand.

It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.