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 universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.

I grew up in a very nice house in Houston, went to private school all my life and I’ve never even been to the ‚hood. Not that there’s anything wrong with the ‚hood.

Some people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives they must live.

I have no doubt that Russia will and should remain a major source of energy supplies for Europe and the world.

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

To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else’s type of thinking.

It’s a tragedy, in a way, that Americans are brought up to think that they cannot feel for other people and other beings just because they are different. They think they’re different. It’s very limiting.

You can’t have everything. Where would you put it?

A lot of people in our industry haven’t had very diverse experiences. So they don’t have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one’s understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.

We identify in our experience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us.

There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.

No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.

All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.

The world knows that America will never start a war. This generation of Americans has had enough of war and hate… we want to build a world of peace where the weak are secure and the strong are just.

In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure; in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it is excessively discussed.

The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.

One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.

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

One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him.

Go up in an airplane. Go high enough, and it’s like we don’t even exist.

Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is beauty in the character. When there is beauty in the character, there is harmony in the home. When there is harmony in the home, there is order in the nation. When there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.

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

We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value.

If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.

Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.

God knows when the end of time will come, not some fanatic… The world will end someday, but the end of the world and the end of time are two different things.

There’s no one thing that is true. They’re all true.

Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.

Not only is there but one way of doing things rightly, but there is only one way of seeing them, and that is, seeing the whole of them.

A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.

Say not, ‚I have found the truth,‘ but rather, ‚I have found a truth.‘

People see things differently and remember things differently. It’s why if somebody robs a liquor store and there are four witnesses they’ll often disagree.

I’ve made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I’m convinced of the opposite.

On a spiritual level, it’s as though with my sighted eye I see what’s before me, and with my unsighted eye I see what’s hidden. It’s illuminated life more than darkened it.

Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.

There is no such things as ‚best‘ in the world of individuals.

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.

Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.

The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.

Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else’s head instead of with one’s own.

It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.

There’s hope for everyone. That’s what makes the world go round.

Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.

A child thinks 20 shillings and 20 years can scarce ever be spent.

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.

There may not be one Truth – there may be several truths – but saying that is not to say that reality doesn’t exist.

I just think people should invest in the world. Don’t invest in fashion, but invest in the world.

The divisions of Perspective are 3, as used in drawing; of these, the first includes the diminution in size of opaque objects; the second treats of the diminution and loss of outline in such opaque objects; the third, of the diminution and loss of colour at long distances.

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

If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.

It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.

You know, people talk about this being an uncertain time. You know, all time is uncertain. I mean, it was uncertain back in – in 2007, we just didn’t know it was uncertain. It was – uncertain on September 10th, 2001. It was uncertain on October 18th, 1987, you just didn’t know it.

Life is our dictionary.

Never in any case say I have lost such a thing, but I have returned it. Is your child dead? It is a return. Is your wife dead? It is a return. Are you deprived of your estate? Is not this also a return?

I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.

One day it will be over, and I don’t care.

Like a pianist runs her fingers over the keys, I’ll search my mind for what to say. Now, the poem may want you to write it. And then sometimes you see a situation and think, ‚I’d like to write about that.‘ Those are two different ways of being approached by a poem, or approaching a poem.

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