I believe all religions are becoming obsolete, clinging to ancient concepts.

The correct description is that we try every day to become more humble when we talk about divinity, we try to realize how little we know and how open minded we should be.

I wouldn't call it radical; I would call it enthusiasm for progress.

The idea that an individual can find God is terribly self-centered. It is like a wave thinking it can find the sea.

If you are not egotistical, you will welcome the opportunity to learn more.

I focus on spiritual wealth now, and I'm busier, more enthusiastic, and more joyful than I have ever been.

I thought, I'm only going to be on this planet once, and only for a short time. What can I do with my life that will lead to permanent benefits?

The question is not is there a God, but is there anything else except God? God is everyone and each of us is a little bit.

Work at being a humble person.

If we become increasingly humble about how little we know, we may be more eager to search.

I'm really convinced that our descendants a century or two from now will look back at us with the same pity that we have toward the people in the field of science two centuries ago.

Anybody who had come up with a new concept would have been under suspicion for being out of step with the tradition or out of step with the teachings of the church.

It is nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.

It's self-centered to think that human beings, as limited as we are, can describe divinity.

I believe all religions are becoming obsolete, clinging to ancient concepts.

A doctor today would never prescribe the treatments my grandfather used in the Confederate Army, but a minister says pretty much the same thing today that a minister would have said back then.

Three of my children are medical doctors, they know at least a hundred times as much about your body as my grandfather knew, but they don't know much more about soul than he did.

If we become increasingly humble about how little we know we may be more eager to search.

If you are not egotistical you will welcome the opportunity to learn more.

Its self centered to think that human beings as limited as we are can describe divinity.

Happiness comes from spiritual wealth not material wealth... Happiness comes from giving not getting. If we try hard to bring happiness to others we cannot stop it from coming to us also. To get joy we must give it and to keep joy we must scatter it.

Do your homework or hire wise experts to help you. Never jump into a business you have no idea about.

The four most dangerous words in investing are 'This time it's different'.

The four most dangerous words in investing are: this time it's different.

If we try hard to bring happiness to others, we cannot stop it from coming to us also. To get joy, we must give it, and to keep joy, we must scatter it.

Never forget: the secret of creating riches for oneself is to create them for others.

Thanksgiving being thankful or grateful results in more to be thankful for.

The person who is willing to say yes to experience is the person who discovers new frontiers.

It's an embarrassment of riches because you have directors who don't better. You end up with so much stuff going on the screen that you don't know where to look, and that's what I consider self-indulgent.

For my second and third pictures, I won Academy Awards. Nothing worse could have happened to me.

If you have much give of your wealth If you have little give of your heart.

The scariness of manhood to males may be symbolically seen in the many stories of indigenous Australian boys who ran away and hid in the bush as the time of initiation approached.

Everything is a battle with this band.

It's an ill wind that blows no one any good

In Australia, I'm built up as this comedy hero, which was never my intention.

To me, strange is just another way of saying unusual. And unusual is just another way of saying special.

He that will learn to pray, let him go to sea.

Happily ever after is not a fairy tale. Its a choice

Present opportunities are not to be neglected they rarely visit us twice.

So many people hide inside their clothes.

I wanted to go to medical school. But, I never got a college scholarship.

Ninety percent of the people who come to see me are my fans.

I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.

I'm not really a girly girl, so for the most part, I'm really into wearing baggy clothes. A little on the grungy side of things for the dance world. I'm not really into the tutus or the flower hair clips, either. As dancers, we're pretty much next to naked with each other all day, so you kind of get used to being not so clothed.

If you're going to be an entertainer, entertain thoroughly. If you're going to make a scary movie, scare people well.

It is upon the length and breadth and span of a body sustained in muscular action that dance invokes its image.

I come from a specific area in Beirut where it's multicultural, and it's a culture that blends with multiple cultures - it's unbelievable lifestyle.

Change can be frightening, and the temptation is often to resist it. But change almost always provides opportunities - to learn new things, to rethink tired processes, and to improve the way we work.

Sometimes, as a comedian, a line will come to you, that is so beautiful, so perfect, that you think: I did not create this line. This line belongs to all of us. Surely this is a line of God.