Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.

No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?

Nobody enjoys the ‚little show about nothing‘ humor more than me, but that is never the way I look at it.

I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.

I am not a televangelist.

My dream is to continue filming until my body tells me to stop.

Ask an older person you respect to tell you his or her greatest regret.

I don’t know what acting is, but I enjoy it.

Youth is wasted on the young.

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

My work as an artist is completely separate from my work as a philanthropist.

As you get older, time speeds up but life slows down.

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?

I’m too busy acting like I’m not Naive. I’ve seen it all, I was here first.

There is nothing insignificant in the world. It all depends on the point of view.

Mortality is very different when you’re 20 to when you’re 50.

I love performing, you know, because, like I say, I’m a ham for this stuff.

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

Like my friend Warren Buffett, I feel particularly lucky to do something every day that I love to do. He calls it ‚tap-dancing to work.‘

The truth may be out there, but lies are inside your head.

Van Gogh never made a penny in his entire lifetime. He painted because it was his soul, his excitement. It was what aligned him with his Source of being. It’s the same with me and writing.

The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.

Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.

You’re dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway.

The United States has made serious mistakes in the conduct of its foreign affairs, which have had unfortunate repercussions long after the decisions were taken.

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

Immigration laws are the only laws that are discussed in terms of how to help people who break them.

Life is our dictionary.

I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.

I’d have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.

To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn’t everything.

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

If my films don’t show a profit, I know I’m doing something right.

Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist.

Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.

I started out as a poet. I’ve always been a poet since I was 7 or 8. And so I feel myself to be fundamentally a poet who got into writing novels.

At the end of the day, the TV show is the best job in the world. I get to go anywhere I want, eat and drink whatever I want. As long as I just babble at the camera, other people will pay for it. It’s a gift.

I’ve never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It’s probably because they have forgotten their own.

We are anthill men upon an anthill world.

Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

We love things we love what they are.

I grew up in a very nice house in Houston, went to private school all my life and I’ve never even been to the ‚hood. Not that there’s anything wrong with the ‚hood.

I was brought up differently than the average American child because the average child is brought up expecting to be happy.

My purpose is to make exciting music, and I feel like I’ll be doing that for the rest of my life, so there’s no pressure.

An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.

There is nothing I love as much as a good fight.

The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.

I have been influenced in my thinking by both west and east.

New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.

You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.

I, personally, think there is a really danger of taking food too seriously. Food should be part of the bigger picture.

At times in my life the only place I have been happy is when I am on stage.

There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

I know now that there is no one thing that is true – it is all true.

If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.

Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.