The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Whoever will be born must destroy a world.

When we talk about mortality, we are talking about our children.

The Hindu religions gave me the impression of a vast well into which one plunges in order to grasp the reflection of the sun.

Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

We have real enemies in the world. These enemies must be found. They must be pursued and they must be defeated.

It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.

Only on the edge of the grave can man conclude anything.

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.

Just as we develop our physical muscles through overcoming opposition – such as lifting weights – we develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and adversity.

We will move forward, we will move upward, and yes, we will move onward.

Revolutions go not backward.

Nothing can be divided into more parts than it can possibly be constituted of. But matter (i.e. finite) cannot be constituted of infinite parts.

What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.

Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.

Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.

It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture.

Here’s what I believe, I think the FBI is the premier law enforcement agency in the history of the world but i think there was some bad apples over there.

Africa will thrive.

At some point in time, you definitely have to go drama. Not to say that you’re going drama just because everybody else does it. You do it to challenge yourself. You do it because, naturally, in the profession of acting, you want to show growth. You want to say that you take the craft seriously.

Good men by nature, wish to know. I know that many will call this useless work… men who desire nothing but material riches and are absolutely devoid of that of wisdom, which is the food and only true riches of the mind.

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.

We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.

I believe growth should be constant, sustained and inclusive. It’s only meaningful if these three things are there. Otherwise they’re just economic figures.

If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.

The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.

Meaning and reality were not hidden somewhere behind things, they were in them, in all of them.

If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence.

Everything has changed, and nothing has changed more than the world of fashion.

To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one’s being added to that being.

To do nothing is also a good remedy.

I’m sure a lot of people out there make mistakes.

Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.

I’m actually starting to like more and more people who have convictions that are unpopular.

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

Occasionally, I hanker for the time when I sold more records, but I don’t sit and drool about it. When I do look at early footage of Talking Heads, I realise I was just a wreck.

To keep the business going, you gotta keep it boomin‘.

As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.

Peace is liberty in tranquillity.

It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.

I know now that there is no one thing that is true – it is all true.

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. Yet his shadow still looms. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives; who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves?

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.

I’m definitely gaining new fans, and that’s the key of any success… gain more love.

At twelve I looked like a girl of seventeen. My body was developed and shapely. I still wore the blue dress and the blouse the orphanage provided. They made me look like an overgrown lummox.

Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.

We were born with a capacity to grow, love, marry, and form families.

If everything was perfect, you would never learn and you would never grow.

Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.