I believe in everything until it’s disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it’s in your mind. Who’s to say that dreams and nightmares aren’t as real as the here and now?

I have nothing to ask but that you would remove to the other side, that you may not, by intercepting the sunshine, take from me what you cannot give.

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.

I don’t think I ever thought of myself as Superman. But there were people who thought of me that way, and maybe I believed them a little.

Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.

The human race is governed by its imagination.

I praticed making faces in the mirror and it would drive my mother crazy. She used to scare me by saying that I was going to see the devil if I kept looking in the mirror. That fascinated me even more, of course.

Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.

Imagination decides everything.

What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet.

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

It seemed like a very small possibility for me to become an artist. I didn’t have the need to be on the stage; I didn’t feel the need to be heard. I just needed to write.

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.

Live out of your imagination, not your history.

Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.

I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

I’m fascinated by the fact that we can’t grasp anything about time.

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

To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.

I want to know why the universe exists, why there is something greater than nothing.

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?

Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.

Facts are stubborn things.

Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Reality simply consists of different points of view.

I think kids are natural actors. You watch most kids; if they don’t have a toy, they’ll pick up a stick and make a toy out of it. Kids will daydream all the time.

‚Your Erroneous Zones’ was the book that went over the top simply because I believed in it so much.

Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt.

I believe in a passion for inclusion.

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

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.

A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty.

God gave you a brain. Do the best you can with it. And you don’t have to be Einstein, but Einstein was mentally tough. He believed what he believed. And he worked out things. And he argued with people who disagreed with him. But I’m sure he didn’t call everybody jerks.

Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!

Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.

I don’t believe in the school of hard knocks, although I’ve had them. All that stuff about whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger is so not true. Do you know what makes you stronger? When people treat you and your art with dignity.

Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.

Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.

Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.

We are never further from what we wish than when we believe that we have what we wished for.

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

He who looks the higher is the more highly distinguished, and turning over the great book of nature (which is the proper object of philosophy) is the way to elevate one’s gaze.

So I say to you, Ask and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you.

As soon as you have a language that has a past tense and a future tense you’re going to say, ‚Where did we come from, what happens next?‘ The ability to remember the past helps us plan the future.

My life as a child did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.

A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.

It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist.

I look at athletes in all sports and try to picture what kind of football player they’d be, what position they’d play and so on.

I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul.

There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.

The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.

So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.

What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat?

To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

It’s not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it’s the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.

One day, I want to make a PG film.