It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

I have written too much history to have faith in it; and if anyone thinks I’m wrong, I am inclined to agree with him.

It is unnecessary to say that Fidel Castro possesses the high qualities of a fighter and statesman: our path, our struggle, and our triumph we owed to his vision.

Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.

The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.

No one should be ashamed to admit he is wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.

If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk.

I still make sure to go, at least once every year, to a country where things cannot be taken for granted, and where there is either too much law and order or too little.

Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.

A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.

If you have the insight of non-self, if you have the insight of impermanence, you should make that insight into a concentration that you keep alive throughout the day. Then what you say, what you think, and what you do will then be in the light of that wisdom and you will avoid making mistakes and creating suffering.

Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.

Whatever is well said by another, is mine.

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

I’m an idealist without illusions.

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

The idea is to try to give all the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgment in one particular direction or another.

Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.

Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, uses that something to support their own existence.

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

There is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell.

I believe that many of my young guys lived because I didn’t waste their lives because I didn’t have the vision in my mind of how to destroy the enemy at least cost to our guys and to the innocents on the battlefields.

As a blind man has no idea of colors, so have we no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things.

Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom – and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

Life is a series of commas, not periods.

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

I never think about myself as an artist working in this time. I think about it in macro.

Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.

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

The person who doesn’t scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs.

I’ll die a crazy old man!

Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.

Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don’t care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.

Fame will go by and, so long, I’ve had you, fame. If it goes by, I’ve always known it was fickle. So at least it’s something I experience, but that’s not where I live.

Death is not the worst that can happen to men.

Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.

Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

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

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.

My business is to prevent the future.

People don’t realize that we, we meaning people in show business, have the same problems as everyone else. Money doesn’t change that. Fame doesn’t change that. Sometimes that brings on more problems. You know, it’s just a different kind of problems.

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

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

He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.

An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.

Before a man speaks it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks, it is seldom necessary to assume it.

Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.

Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.