Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.

The world has not yet reached the point which, in my view, is an essential condition for the survival of our human species: access by all the peoples to the material resources of this planet.

I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.

War does not determine who is right – only who is left.

I was always very curious as a young man about why older writers who I met seemed so indifferent to what was going on, whereas I, in my 20s, was reading everything. Everything seemed important. But they were only interested in the writers they admired when they were young, and I didn’t understand it then, but now, now I understand it.

Ultimately, a real understanding of history means that we face nothing new under the sun.

Death is the king of this world: ‚Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.

I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.

For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.

This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

Changing is not just changing the things outside of us. First of all we need the right view that transcends all notions including of being and non-being, creator and creature, mind and spirit. That kind of insight is crucial for transformation and healing.

It is normal to give away a little of one’s life in order not to lose it all.

We have communion with Christ in His thoughts, views, and purposes; for His thoughts are our thoughts according to our capacity and sanctity. Believers take the same view of matters as Jesus does; that which pleases Him pleases them, and that which grieves His grieves them also.

All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.

Mortality is very different when you’re 20 to when you’re 50.

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.

When I’m a director, I look at myself the actor as a completely different person. It’s somebody else up there, an actor playing a role. I keep myself out of it.

Life is not living in the suburbs with a white picket fence. That’s not life. Somehow our American culture has made it out that that’s what life needs to be – and that if it’s not that, it’s all screwed up. It’s not.

The ideas associated with the problems of the development of science, as far as I can see by looking around me, are not of the kind that everyone appreciates.

For all who love freedom and peace, the world without Saddam Hussein’s regime is a better and safer place.

Everybody is idealistic when you’re a kid.

We’re going to have the best-educated American people in the world.

See, when you drive home today, you’ve got a big windshield on the front of your car. And you’ve got a little bitty rearview mirror. And the reason the windshield is so large and the rearview mirror is so small is because what’s happened in your past is not near as important as what’s in your future.

Some people focus more on sonics. Some people focus more on story. I focus on both sonics and story, but music sometimes, just music itself, can turn into more of a maths problem. I guess everything in life is a math problem, but it can be more about an empirical route to getting the symmetry that you want, and this vibe, sonically.

Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.

You might not have the things you want, but if you check carefully, you got all you need.

Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist.

Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.

There was a while when I was feeling like, ‚Damn, if I’d just been born black, I would not have to go through all this‘.

How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.

If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat.

People who think you could wave a magic wand and the legacy of the past will be over are blind.

We do not know what is really good or bad fortune.

There are no big problems, there are just a lot of little problems.

It is the greatest of all advantages to enjoy no advantage at all.

I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?

My father wasn’t around when I was a kid, and I used to always say, ‚Why me? Why don’t I have a father? Why isn’t he around? Why did he leave my mother?‘ But as I got older I looked deeper and thought, ‚I don’t know what my father was going through, but if he was around all the time, would I be who I am today?‘

I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.

Money can’t buy life.

There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.

America… just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.

For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.

This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.

If I went back to my 20-year-old self, what I would tell my 20-year-old self is, ‚You don’t know anything.‘ Because everyone, when they’re young, they think they know what’s going on in the world, and you don’t.

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

We came into a broken world. And we’re the cleanup crew.

I, personally, think there is a really danger of taking food too seriously. Food should be part of the bigger picture.

My justification is that most people my age spend a lot of time thinking about what they’re going to do for the next five or ten years. The time they spend thinking about their life, I just spend drinking.

No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned… a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.

We live in a world that has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood.

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

For ninety per cent of those who view him from outside, the Christian God looks like a great landowner administering his estates, the world. Now this conventional picture, which is too well justified by appearances, corresponds in no way to the dogmatic basis or point of view of the Gospels.

Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.

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

In the fight between you and the world, back the world.

What one fool can understand, another can.

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

I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.