Holy Quotations | Page 6

Only the Holy Father can decide which men are suitable. But if the government is worried about an appointment, they can give their views.

One of the most beautiful sights in my neighborhood is on High Holy Days when people walk to temple. Not only does this bring the traditional legendary weather, but it gives off a psychic signal to slow down.

I think melancholy is part of the natural condition, you know. Anyway, I think it's the artist's function to have their melancholy and not hide it, you see.

As a remedy against all ills - poverty, sickness, and melancholy - only one thing is absolutely necessary: a liking for work

I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.

That is, you can have nothingness, absolute nothingness for maybe a tiny fraction of a second, if a second can be defined in that arena, but then it falls apart into a something and an anti-something. And that something is then what we call the universe. But can we really understand that or put rigorous mathematics or testable experiments against that? Not yet. So one of the big holy grail of physics is to understand why there is something rather than nothing.

Are there any religions on your list that include the slaughter of noblemen as a holy duty?

I'm interested in locating the holy grail of the minimum means to express the most complex ideas.

I have absolutely no where to go tonight. I have no house, so I'm coming here to the Western Wall near the Temple Mount to pray for the everlasting house. The holy Temple, that's the only house I have left, and that's what I'm going to go for.

I did my holy communion, and it was amazing how quickly the stories of the Bible and God and Jesus got under my skin.