I think the founding fathers believed religion shouldn't interact directly with government.
All, or nearly all, the advantage there is in fixing any constitutional limits to the power of a government, is simply to give notice to the government of the point at which it will meet with resistance.
Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don't you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet?
To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
What gets in our way is history and culture and religion and economic conditions. It is part of the hypnosis of our social conditioning.
I tend to like to read history - recent history, because I find that much more intriguing than just a writer's imagination.
My whole life, I had been taught to read and study, to seek understanding in knowledge of history, of cultures.
It's through the small things that we develop our moral imagination, so that we can understand the sufferings of others.
There are moments when a man's imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rises above its daily level and surveys the long windings of destiny.
The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing.
One thing about 'Star Wars' that I'm really proud of is that it expands the imagination. That's why I like the 'Star Wars' toys.
Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.
Authors are ordinary people who usually start to live apart, in the imagination, because they don't fit in with normal, healthy people.
Once, America's size in the imagination was limitless. After Europeans settled and changed it, working from the coasts inland, its size in the imagination shrank.
Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.
'A Princess of Mars' may not have exerted the same colossal pull that Tarzan had on the global imagination, but its influence on generations of readers cannot be underestimated.
Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood.
I think we built the right future. If it's a choice between the flying car or the Internet, tablets and smartphones, I'll take what we've got.
My dad used to say, 'Just because you dress up in a coat and tie, it doesn't influence your intelligence.'
I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary.
Since fame is an illusion and death is in our future all we have is the next moment before we are swallowed into oblivion.
