Even from the very beginning, I didn't put any money in the stock market.
It's difficult when you have to turn down a tremendous amount of money because you don't like what the script is saying and you don't have any money.
I like writing, but I write for self-improvement more than I do for money.
Even though 'Heathers' didn't make a lot of money, I really was able to transition into a situation where people thought I could play an attractive role because of it.
The United States lived on borrowed money for too long, inflating its financial sector unnecessarily and neglecting its small and mid-sized industrial companies.
If there's no inner peace, people can't give it to you. The husband can't give it to you. Your children can't give it to you. You have to give it to you.
Martin Luther King Jr. is remembered as our prince of peace, of civil rights. We owe him something major that will keep his memory alive.
It seems to me that if Mr. Obama wins the presidential election, then Messrs. Farrakhan, Wright, Ayers and Pfleger will gain power for their need to demoralize this country and help create a socialist America.
Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.
The Conservative Party is a religion in that they are bound together by belief. Almost any organization has its religious aspects.
Religion must mainly be a matter of principles only. It cannot be a matter of rules. The moment it degenerates into rules, it ceases to be a religion, as it kills responsibility which is an essence of the true religious act.
I think flying planes into a building was a faith-based initiative. I think religion is a neurological disorder.
Religion is dangerous because it allows human beings who don't have all the answers to think that they do.
I've got no problem with anybody's religion. But if you go claiming the Earth is only 10,000 years old, that's just wrong.
It was not a religion that attacked us that September day. It was al-Qaeda. We will not sacrifice the liberties we cherish or hunker down behind walls of suspicion and mistrust.
The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after you with machetes.
I think it's perfectly just to refuse service to anyone based on behavior, but not based on race or religion.
Liberalism is a religion. Its tenets cannot be proved, its capacity for waste and destruction demonstrated. But it affords a feeling of spiritual rectitude at little or no cost.
The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion.
I see no way out of the problems that organized religion and tribalism create other than humans just becoming more honest and fully aware of themselves.
We may be sure that out of the ruins of our capitalist civilization a new religion will emerge, just as Christianity emerged from the ruins of the Roman civilization.