Susceptibility to the highest forces is the highest genius.

We are not without empathetic terror when we open Pascal’s ‚Pensees‘ and read, ‚I am the great silent spaces between worlds.‘

If you can dream it, you can do it.

We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.

I do not pretend to start with precise questions. I do not think you can start with anything precise. You have to achieve such precision as you can, as you go along.

Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them.

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

What really raises one’s indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering.

The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.

Everything rises and falls on leadership.

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

The whole is more than the sum of its parts.

Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.

When I heard ‚Jesus, Take the Wheel,‘ I was like, OK. Some people look at it as a song written for an American Idol, Carrie Underwood, who is wonderful. But when you’re a songwriter listening to a song, you hear something else. I heard that song, and wow.

Let us work without theorizing, tis the only way to make life endurable.

States are not moral agents.

When I write, I write about my surroundings. Sometimes it’s light, and sometimes it gets very dark.

How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?

To be great is to be misunderstood.

The earth is supported by the power of truth; it is the power of truth that makes the sun shine and the winds blow; indeed all things rest upon truth.

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

You might win some, you might lose some. But you go in, you challenge yourself, you become a better man, a better individual, a better fighter.

Every artist preserves deep within him a single source from which, throughout his lifetime, he draws what he is, and what he says. When the source dries up, the work withers and crumbles.

In 1995, I was diagnosed with cancer, and I had to practice what I preached. I had always said to ‚believe in God‘ and ‚don’t give up‘ to little kids who had been diagnosed with cancer. I then thought if I can’t call on that same God and same strength that I told people about, I would be a liar and a phony.

My mother had a saying: ‚Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you’re not the last.‘

I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.

What goes up must come down.

Our best thoughts come from others.

Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.

One man with courage is a majority.

In order to exist, man must rebel, but rebellion must respect the limits that it discovers in itself – limits where minds meet, and in meeting, begin to exist.

Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.

You sort of start thinking anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.

Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see where they are going to lead.

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

To me, the extraordinary aspect of martial arts lies in its simplicity. The easy way is also the right way, and martial arts is nothing at all special; the closer to the true way of martial arts, the less wastage of expression there is.

A man’s felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.

I think the materialist conception of history is valid.

The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.

Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.

Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

I remember being in Japan when Destiny’s Child put out ‚Independent Women,‘ and women there were saying how proud they were to have their own jobs, their own independent thinking, their own goals. It made me feel so good, and I realized that one of my responsibilities was to inspire women in a deeper way.

The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.

Things in themselves have no life in them. A car can’t comfort or encourage you. A house means nothing if there’s no life and love inside.

Where the mind goes, the man follows.

The great quest of life has always been to discover truth.

Every bit of me is devoted to love and art. And I aspire to try to be a teacher to my young fans who feel just like I felt when I was younger. I just felt like a freak. I guess what I’m trying to say is I’m trying to liberate them, I want to free them of their fears and make them feel that they can make their own space in the world.

As much as I love the Western genre, I figured if I kept doing those, I’d eventually run out of steam on that, and that would’ve been the end of it.

The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.

When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.

Even if you have nothing to write, write and say so.

In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

Common sense is the genius of humanity.

Non-violence is the article of faith.

Why are we here? Where do we come from? Traditionally, these are questions for philosophy, but philosophy is dead.

Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.

What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.

There wasn’t much as a kid that inspired me in what I did as an adult, but I was always very interested in what motivates people, and in telling stories and building things.