Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.

There are many victories worse than a defeat.

You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own. It’s just a matter of paying attention to this miracle.

Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

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

A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.

The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.

What’s real freedom? Real freedom is being able to not have my way and still be just as happy as if I did.

It’s lack that gives us inspiration. It’s not fullness.

Wherever you go, go with all your heart.

I did used to have nightmares about the idea that when I die, there is a spark of consciousness which basically creates the world. ‚Is the world going to disappear if this spark of consciousness disappears? And how do I know it won’t? How do I know there’s anything there except what I’m conscious of?‘

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.

If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.

I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?

And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high.

I always kind of see how I want things to be better, and I’m generally not happy with how things are or the level of service that we’re providing for people or the quality of the teams that we built. But if you look at this objectively, we’re doing so well on so many of these things. I think it’s important to have gratitude for that.

Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.

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

There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.

Every man is his own hell.

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

A squirrel dying in front of your house may be more relevant to your interests right now than people dying in Africa.

Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.

I don’t have people following me around, like bodyguards. I don’t know how people live like that. Maybe the young movie stars have to live like that, I don’t know. But it seems a little crazy to me. I don’t think you need all that stuff.

I’d rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation’s braggart lords.

When I’m a director, I look at myself the actor as a completely different person. It’s somebody else up there, an actor playing a role. I keep myself out of it.

Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.

You are the universe, you aren’t in the universe.

Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.

Thought is the parent of the deed.

I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartanlike as to put to rout all that was not life.

A lot of people in our industry haven’t had very diverse experiences. So they don’t have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one’s understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.

The whole is more than the sum of its parts.

After your death you will be what you were before your birth.

When the solution is simple, God is answering.

It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.

I think that all things, in their way, reflect heavenly truth, the imagination not least.

There is love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look.

The best road to progress is freedom’s road.

You always admire what you really don’t understand.

It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.

I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect.

And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

To be honest, I think kids have got a lot more going on than adults. They’ve got their heads screwed on a lot better.

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature’s delight.

All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.

A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.

You are doomed to make choices. This is life’s greatest paradox.

Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.

I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.

Applause is a receipt, not a bill.

Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?

There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.