The fellow that can only see a week ahead is always the popular fellow, for he is looking with the crowd. But the one that can see years ahead, he has a telescope but he can’t make anybody believe that he has it.

The cause of my life has been to oppose superstition. It’s a battle you can’t hope to win – it’s a battle that’s going to go on forever. It’s part of the human condition.

When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.

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

I do believe in the energy and the productivity of the American business world.

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

All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract; or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience.

Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.

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.

To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.

The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.

Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today’s events.

When you are an actor, you have to stay inside this world, but when you are with the crew, on the outside, you are in the dirt, working through all the issues. It’s just a different way of working, and I think I preferred it.

You can’t have a rigid view that all new taxes are evil.

I don’t pretend to understand the Universe – it’s a great deal bigger than I am.

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about dying, but I like to think that I’ve – if it did occur – that I would die peacefully and not make too much of a fuss about it.

A person hears only what they understand.

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.

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.

In my opinion, there is no aspect of reality beyond the reach of the human mind.

People only see what they are prepared to see.

I like being able to be on the inside of music, rather than on the outside listening to it.

I mean, I feel like you get more bees with honey. But that doesn’t mean I don’t get frustrated in my life.

Sure I believe in God and the Devil, but they don’t have to have pitchforks and a long white beard.

I mean, if you didn’t get it or if you didn’t feel like you enjoyed it, sometimes that experience can change.

I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.

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

Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.

Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree.

I believe in the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.

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

I don’t concern myself with award. I’d been to the party enough times to know it really didn’t matter.

Truth, being limitless, unconditioned, unapproachable by any path whatsoever, cannot be organized; nor should any organization be formed to lead or to coerce people along any particular path. If you first understand that, then you will see how impossible it is to organize a belief.

Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

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

Most of our lives aren’t that exciting, but the drama is still going on in the small details.

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.

Optimism means better than reality; pessimism means worse than reality. I’m a realist.

Reason is the enemy of faith.

If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.

It’s possible – you can never know – that the universe exists only for me. If so, it’s sure going well for me, I must admit.

To love someone means to see him as God intended him.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.

No such thing as a man willing to be honest – that would be like a blind man willing to see.

The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.

Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong – these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history.

A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will’s freedom after it.

God puts people in our lives on purpose so we can help them succeed and help them become all He created them to be. Most people will not reach their full potential without somebody else believing in them.

A little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion.

There’s been some research in cognitive science, I’m told, that discloses that there have always been perhaps 10 to 15 percent of people who are, as Pascal puts it, so made that they cannot believe. To us, when people talk about faith, it’s white noise.

I think that everybody needs four things in life. Everybody needs something to do regardless of age. Everybody needs someone to love. Everybody needs something to hope for, and, of course, everybody needs someone to believe in.

An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.

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