The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. When it becomes incapable of performing this duty it must be transformed.

Before I do anything I think well what hasn't been seen. Sometimes that turns out to be something ghastly and not fit for society. And sometimes that inspiration becomes something that's really worthwhile.

Music is not math. It's science. You keep mixing the stuff up until it blows up on you or it becomes this incredible potion.

A man ceases to be a beginner in any given science and becomes a master in that science when he has learned that he is going to be a beginner all his life.

If Christianity is not scientific and Science is not God then there is no invariable law and truth becomes an accident.

Science has explained nothing the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.

Apart from the fact that your physical ability starts to decline I also think someone in their fifties being childlike becomes a little sad. You've got to be careful.

Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing - where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger which he knows he was meant and made to do.

It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.

You do your work as a photographer and everything becomes past. Words are more like thoughts the photographer's picture is always surrounded by a kind of romantic glamor - no matter what you do and how you twist it.

I have more respect for somebody who points at his ideal - in this case the ideal of the pirate - and then becomes something that's more radical more exciting more subversive than a pirate could ever be.

If you're lucky as you get older you respect the craft and it becomes a skill.

When state and religion are one religion becomes a means for the powerful to remain in power.

The more you get into any religion it becomes the same. It really becomes how you treat other people and how you get outside yourself. How you look to help other people and how you get out of this 'I me mine' type of thing.

No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state.

I have always said that often the religion you were born with becomes more important to you as you see the universality of truth.

Just in our lifetime our society has become looser and more private it becomes extremely difficult to hold to any permanent commitment whatever least of all to organized religion.