"i would court you with passion, if things were different. you'd never get me off your porch swing."

“If God were not a necessary Being of Himself, He might almost seem to be made for the use and benefit of men.”

“Every book is the wreck of a perfect idea.”

“A work of art is a confession.”

“But then with me the horrid doubt always arises whether the convictions of man's mind, which has been developed from the mind of the lower animals, are of any value or at all trustworthy. Would any one trust in the convictions of a monkey's mind, if there are any convictions in such a mind?”

“I'll always have to force myself to see the positive, because I'm wired badly, I'd say. I'm just naturally a bit under, a bit depressed.”

“Someone said one time, 'If your marriage isn't your priority, you're not married,' and I thought, for me that's so true. So as long as I keep her as a priority, everything else sort of seems to work. And when I don't keep it as a priority, it's ... Jenga.”

Source : "Keith Urban's Number One! Country crooner reveals his marriage to Nicole Kidman is like a game of Jenga, saying 'life would fall apart without her keeping things 'balanced'" by Karishma Sarkari, www.dailymail.co.uk. March 03, 2015.

“Remember blessed children of men that the purpose of the real science should be to increase the happiness and to free the race from every external condition that would not be beneficial for the elation of man to the pristine greatness of his original cosmic destiny.”

“Nobody's life is interesting enough to warrant a third memoir.”