If you are looking for smart judging based on merit, skip the Academy Awards next year and pay attention to the Independent Spirit Awards.

The Canadian spirit is cautious, observant and critical where the American is assertive.

As I say, the Animals had a particular concept of themselves as a band. There was an anarchic spirit in it, which was being flattened by commercial designs, attitudes, and needs.

God the Father and God the Son cannot be everywhere present; indeed they cannot be even in two places at the same instant: but God the Holy Spirit is omnipresent - it extends through all space, with all other matter.

God is a spirit. A spirit is as much matter as oxygen or hydrogen.

Each atom of the Holy Spirit is intelligent, and like all other matter has solidity, form, and size, and occupies space.

The Godhead consists of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. The Father is a material being.

But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. God is a spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.

A free spirit takes liberties even with liberty itself.

The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.

They who grasp the world, The Kingdom, and the power, and the glory, Must pay with deepest misery of spirit, Atoning unto God for a brief brightness.

True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

Every time I work with a European director, I find they hire the person that captures the spirit of the role. Americans tend to hire the best face. The person that looks more like the role, whether they can perform the role or not is a bonus.

Golf is the most useless outdoor game ever devised to waste the time and try the spirit of man.

Problems do not go away. They must be worked through or else they remain, forever a barrier to the growth and development of the spirit.