Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.

We have to continue to learn. We have to be open. And we have to be ready to release our knowledge in order to come to a higher understanding of reality.

Time discovers truth.

I’ll die a crazy old man!

All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

There really is no difference between the bully and the victim.

Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.

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

We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another – until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices.

Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.

All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

Somehow, we have come to the erroneous belief that we are all but flesh, blood, and bones, and that’s all. So we direct our values to material things.

A person once asked me, in a provocative manner, if I approved of homosexuality. I replied with another question: ‚Tell me: when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and condemn this person?‘ We must always consider the person.

Culture makes people understand each other better. And if they understand each other better in their soul, it is easier to overcome the economic and political barriers. But first they have to understand that their neighbour is, in the end, just like them, with the same problems, the same questions.

Real living is living for others.

There is always another way to say the same thing that doesn’t look at all like the way you said it before. I don’t know what the reason for this is. I think it is somehow a representation of the simplicity of nature.

Everybody has their thing they like or don’t like to see. It’s all in your head. That’s why people take their own pictures, because it’s difficult for someone else to capture what you seek.

A lot of truth is said in jest.

For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.

I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.

I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.

Such is the feebleness of humanity, such is its perversity, that doubtless it is better for it to be subject to all possible superstitions, as long as they are not murderous, than to live without religion.

The only passion that guides me is for the truth… I look at everything from this point of view.

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

Who is richer? The man who is seen, but cannot see? Or the man who is not being seen, but can see?

There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.

Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.

If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.

To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.

If I close my eyes and think of Hollywood, all I see is one big varicose vein.

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

Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.

Assuming if there’s such a thing as reality, if you have a false relationship with it, how can you do anything but fail?

We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.

I actually don’t want a throne at all, because I don’t view myself as a queen; I view myself as one of my fans.

Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.

Life’s a bit like mountaineering – never look down.

‚Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.

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.

Truth is a pathless land.

Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.

The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.

In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.

The frontier between hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.

I was terrible in English. I couldn’t stand the subject. It seemed to me ridiculous to worry about whether you spelled something wrong or not, because English spelling is just a human convention – it has nothing to do with anything real, anything from nature.

It is only in his music, which Americans are able to admire because a protective sentimentality limits their understanding of it, that the Negro in America has been able to tell his story.

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased.

Contrary to the claims of some of my critics and some of the editorial pages, I am an ardent believer in the free market.

Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.

Listen, I think that people want a president who is going to be interested in the things that keep them up at night, the things that are weighing on them, the things that are debilitating and can be addressed.

Religion and philosophy are to be preserved distinct. We are not to introduce divine revelations into philosophy, nor philosophical opinions into religion.

Freedom is relative.

Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain’t so.

Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.

Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?

The earth is supported by the power of truth; it is the power of truth that makes the sun shine and the winds blow; indeed all things rest upon truth.

Back when I was in school, few people understood dyslexia and what to do for it. My teachers thought I was lazy and not very clever, and I got bored easily… thinking of all the things I could do once I left school. I couldn’t always follow what was going on.

Most people have no idea what something would sound like if it wasn’t an MP3.

The absurd depends as much on man as on the world. For the moment, it is all that links them together.