The minority is sometimes right; the majority always wrong.

People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

With all due respect, the Mona Lisa is overrated.

Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else’s head instead of with one’s own.

I don’t think I would be interested in the climate at all if I had been like everyone else.

The things I talk about and explain couldn’t happen – yet, they don’t seem impossible – you could say I talk about the world in an abstract perspective. But then, the world is basically insane – and it’s trying to pass itself off as being a sane place. I show it for what it is.

We have one planet in our solar system that’s habitable, and that’s the Earth, and space travel can transform things back here for the better. First of all, by just having people go to space and look back on this fragile planet we live on. People have come back transformed and have done fantastic things.

There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.

As human beings, we are all not conducting just one narrative but many narratives all at the same time.

God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.

With my childhood, it’s a wonder I’m not psychotic. I was the little Jewish boy in the non-Jewish neighborhood. It was a little like being the first Negro enrolled in the all-white school. I grew up in libraries and among books, without friends.

A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.

You might not have the things you want, but if you check carefully, you got all you need.

Fashion is merely an opinion. And I’ve got a lot of opinions.

When you are an actor, you have to stay inside this world, but when you are with the crew, on the outside, you are in the dirt, working through all the issues. It’s just a different way of working, and I think I preferred it.

Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.

If it’s a penny for your thoughts and you put in your two cents worth, then someone, somewhere is making a penny.

We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.

I’m strictly for Stevenson. I don’t dig the intellectual bit, but I’m telling you, man, he knows the most.

Part of the reason there’s an injunction to the truth, for example, is that if you’re in a circumstance of extreme uncertainty, your best weapon, let’s say, or your best tool or your best defense is the truth, because it keeps things simpler.

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.

We cannot insist only on issues related to abortion, gay marriage and the use of contraceptive methods. The teaching of the church is clear, and I am a son of the church, but it is not necessary to talk about these issues all the time.

See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse.

Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories – and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories.

I’m an idealist without illusions.

Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.

I don’t think that my kind of journalism has ever been universally popular. It’s lonely out here.

The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.

There are definitely elements of experience and stuff that someone who’s my age wouldn’t have. But there are also things that I can do that other people wouldn’t necessarily be able to.

In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.

Life is our dictionary.

I always was a rich person because money’s not related to happiness.

Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

On the other hand, you have different fingers.

No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.

A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.

Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?

Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.

Do creative, social, and civic attitudes change depending on where we live? Yes, I think so.

Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?

We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.

There is something curiously boring about somebody else’s happiness.

Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.

The eye sees what it brings the power to see.

A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right. A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice. A man dies when he refuses to take a stand for that which is true.

The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.

I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don’t.

Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.

I’m evangelical on the subject of some chefs and writers.

If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.

Let a man get up and say, Behold, this is the truth, and instantly I perceive a sandy cat filching a piece of fish in the background. Look, you have forgotten the cat, I say.