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

Fantasy is uni-age. You can start it in the creche, and it follows you to death.

Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.

Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.

Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.

The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours.

Players today moan about the number of games, but when you’re young, you can’t play enough.

Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.

Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion.

I just have a relationship with my imagination. It’s like my friend, almost.

Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.

I actually feel like women in my position, when we have all at our disposal to help us, shouldn’t complain when we consider all of the people who are really struggling and don’t have the means or support. Many people are single, raising children. That’s hard.

The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.

I want to do a certain thing in the world, and I am going to do it with unwavering concentration. I am concerning myself with only one essential thing: to set man free. I desire to free him from all cages, from all fears, and not to found religions, new sects, nor to establish new theories and new philosophies.

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.

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

The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.

Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.

Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.

I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.

Wherever you write is supposed to be a little bit of a refuge, a place where you can get away from the world. The more closed in you are, the more you’re forced back on your own imagination.

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

There are no such things as Flowers there are only gladdened Leaves.

Fame doesn’t fulfill you. It warms you a bit, but that warmth is temporary.

People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.

The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person.

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass.

When you are an actor, you have to stay inside this world, but when you are with the crew, on the outside, you are in the dirt, working through all the issues. It’s just a different way of working, and I think I preferred it.

Premature certainty is the enemy of the truth.

Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.

I think it’s a very good thing to leave your country and look at it from afar.

Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.

Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.

It’s so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.

If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence.

Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.

If you would judge, understand.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.

When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.

Life cannot be without relationship, but we have made it so agonizing and hideous by basing it on personal and possessive love. Can one love and yet not possess? You will find the true answer not in escape, ideals, beliefs but through the understanding of the causes of dependence and possessiveness.

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.

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

And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.

Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice… that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.

Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it.

When I look back on my life as a whole, it is impossible for me not to feel blessed.

It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.

Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.

Their mothers had finally caught up to them and been proven right. There were consequences after all but they were the consequences to things you didn’t even know you’d done.

Falsehood is a perennial spring.

The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

I vividly remember a conversation I had many years ago in 1974, which marked a turning point in my leadership journey. I was sitting at a Holiday Inn with my friend, Kurt Campmeyer, when he asked me if I had a personal growth plan. I didn’t. In fact, I didn’t even know you were supposed to have one.