In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

‚Star Wars‘ is fun, its exciting, its inspirational, and people respond to that. It’s what they want.

Error is always more busy than truth.

A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer’s hand.

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

Everything is funny, as long as it’s happening to somebody else.

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.

First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.

Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.

We want to answer this classical question, who am I? So I think that most of our works are for art, or whatever we do, including science or religion, tried to answer that question.

Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.

There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

To live is to think.

I think any life can be interesting, any surroundings can be interesting. I don’t think I could have been so brave if I had been living in a town, competing with people on what can be called a generally higher cultural level.

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

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

There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.

There is a fundamental question we all have to face. How are we to live our lives; by what principles and moral values will we be guided and inspired?

If you see everything from the point of view of women being victims in some way, you don’t see the wood for the trees. It is better to be a person than a woman.

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

I think there is a sense of being forced at this time to look at America’s really large shadow and that’s not all that bad.

Nothing can come of nothing.

Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him, are we idly occupied?

What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature are shot down wholesale.

The question of whether or not there is a God or truth or reality or whatever you like to call it, can never be answered by books, by priests, philosopher’s or saviours. Nobody and nothing can answer the question but you yourself, and that is why you must know yourself – Immaturity lies only in total ignorance of self.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.

A lot of people don’t like the road, but it’s as natural to me as breathing.

The only objects of practical reason are therefore those of good and evil. For by the former is meant an object necessarily desired according to a principle of reason; by the latter one necessarily shunned, also according to a principle of reason.

Do not keep saying to yourself, if you can possibly avoid it, ‚But how can it be like that?‘ because you will get ‚down the drain,‘ into a blind alley from which nobody has yet escaped. Nobody knows how it can be like that.

By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man’s, I mean.

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

No one has the right to be sorry for himself for a misfortune that strikes everyone.

The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.

Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

If you do things, whether it’s acting or music or painting, do it without fear – that’s my philosophy. Because nobody can arrest you and put you in jail if you paint badly, so there’s nothing to lose.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.

O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!

Death is just life’s next big adventure.

A man’s as miserable as he thinks he is.

If merely ‚feeling good‘ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.

The good is the beautiful.

The best advice comes from people who don’t give advice.

If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.

It takes no more time to see the good side of life than it takes to see the bad.

God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.

Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.

Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.

You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.

The fellow that can only see a week ahead is always the popular fellow, for he is looking with the crowd. But the one that can see years ahead, he has a telescope but he can’t make anybody believe that he has it.

The more a general is accustomed to place heavy demands on his soldiers, the more he can depend on their response.

We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.

Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion his own divinities, and find a chieftain in his own passions.

When it all got taken away, I was becoming a young man. So I had to sacrifice to leave my family… Sleeping in my car, getting an apartment for a month and getting evicted the next month. Staying in the $25, $50 hotels.

Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.