"It's not what you want in this life, it's what you get that you have to do with."

"There is a big difference between ideas and beliefs. Ideas live above your nose. Beliefs make it all the way to your toes."

"Most directors make films with their eyes; I make films with my testicles."

"It's not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness."

"Vanity is the quicksand of reason."

"A pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun - and neither can stop the march of events."

"Whatever God's dream about man may be, it seems certain it cannot come true unless man cooperates."

"For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing."

"My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind."

"Angels dancing on the head of a pin dissolve into nothingness at the bedside of a dying child."

"The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not."

"I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth."