Actors, politicians, and writers-all of us are but creatures of the hour. Long-lasting fame comes to but few.
If the Bible is true, it needs no inspiration, and - if not true, inspiration can do it no good.
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
Fear paints pictures of ghosts and hangs them in the gallery of ignorance.
Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery.
We rise by lifting others.
The Emperor Constantine, who lifted Christianity into power, murdered his wife Fausta, and his eldest son Crispus, the same year that he convened the Council of Nice to decide whether Jesus Christ was a man or the Son of God. The council decided that Christ was consubstantial with the father. This was in the year 325. We are thus indebted to a wife-murderer for settling the vexed question of the divinity of the Savior.
I kinda write in sequences that I live through.
[The] noblest of [Arabs] united the love of arms with the profession of merchandise.
But when the dust has drunk the blood of men, no resurrection comes for one who's dead.
I happen to think Latinas, Latin women, are the most beautiful women in the world. So that's what I'm going to draw. I love women from all cultures, of course, but if I was going to deal with any of them, that would be No. 1 for me.