Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

The reason that the all-American boy prefers beauty to brains is that he can see better than he can think.

I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate.

Accuracy is in every case advantageous to beauty and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other.

This is the beauty of the Qur'an: it asks you to reflect and reason and not to worship the sun or moon but the One who has created everything. The Qur'an asks man to reflect upon the sun and moon and God's creation in general.

People think that if you look fairly reasonable you can't possibly act and as I only care about acting I think beauty can be a great handicap.

In terms of work I've always had a Bad Attitude in that I won't work anywhere which requires me to work strict hours or follow a dress code. I don't know if that's an Asperger's thing or not I think it's just being reasonable.

Reason is an action of the mind knowledge is a possession of the mind but faith is an attitude of the person. It means you are prepared to stake yourself on something being so.

Regardless of what one's attitude towards prohibition may be temperance is something against which at a time of war no reasonable protest can be made.