I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.

Changes are not unusual – I mean, most movies, when they release them, they make changes. But somehow, when I make the slightest change, everybody thinks it’s the end of the world.

Beauty is also submitted to the taste of time, so a beautiful woman from the Belle Epoch is not exactly the perfect beauty of today, so beauty is something that changes with time.

All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.

I don’t know if I particularly want to be remembered for anything. I personally do not think I’m a great gift to the world. I’ve been very fortunate.

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

Never leave a rhinestone unturned.

The Revlon Run/Walk effort to focus on women’s cancer has my wholehearted support and gratitude.

I’m just telling you, God permits things in our lives sometimes for reasons that we do not understand yet because of the spiritual level that we’re on. We can’t have any understanding of it, because we’re not at a place of spiritual growth yet where we understand the deeper things of God.

North Americans don’t understand… that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity.

If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.

I mean, Hawaii is beautiful, but the world is full of beautiful places.

One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one’s death, one dies one’s life.

If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame.

There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or which finds us first. We are always ripe and ready to be taken.

There is nothing good or evil save in the will.

Things ain’t what they used to be and never were.

If you understand the universe, you control it, in a way.

If you’re not careful to think and speak words of faith, worry will creep in, and it will not only steal your peace and joy, it will steal your ‚today.‘ The present is the greatest gift God ever gives us. So hold on to the peace that’s yours in Christ. Don’t let it go.

Fiction is like a spider’s web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.

Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation.

Can people who hunger so desperately for what other people have ever have enough?

Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.

To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.

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.

Our love, our gratitude, our admiration for our men and women in uniform, our veterans and their families – all of that is bigger than any one party or any one election.

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

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

The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.

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

Remember, we are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.

It’s different from being 21 and you think there’s endless amount of opportunities. At 33, the ending is much, much closer.

Vanity, showing off, is an attitude that reduces spirituality to a worldly thing, which is the worst sin that could be committed in the church.

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do.

A jug fills drop by drop.

Any religion that professes to be concerned about the souls of men and is not concerned about the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them and the social conditions that cripple them is a spiritually moribund religion awaiting burial.

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

I think Mick Jagger would be astounded and amazed if he realized that to many people he is not a sex symbol, but a mother image.

Happiness is within the reach of everyone, rich or poor. Yet comparatively few people are happy. I believe the reason for this is that the majority don’t recognize happiness even when it is within their grasp.

It isn’t what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.

All human evil comes from a single cause, man’s inability to sit still in a room.

No obligation to do the impossible is binding.

If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that’s totally nonsense.

A true man hates no one.

The highest proof of the spirit is love. Love the eternal thing which can already on earth possess as it really is.

All I know is that, thanks to a sort of habit which has always been ingrained in me, I have never, at any moment of my life, experienced the least difficulty in addressing myself to God as to a supreme Someone.

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.

Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time.

One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.

When someone is impatient and says, ‚I haven’t got all day,‘ I always wonder, How can that be? How can you not have all day?

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.

Whenever things go a bit sour in a job I’m doing, I always tell myself, ‚You can do better than this.‘

While we may lose heart, we never have to lose hope.

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.

The supernatural is the natural not yet understood.

If I make music and people hate it, you know, whatever. I’ll die someday, and one day, they will too.

It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.

I’m seeing the world partially through the eyes of a kid. Not all the time. There’s no black and white to it. But sometimes I’m seeing it like I’m 4.

The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.