The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.

If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion.

I think that man has a fundamental obligation to extract from himself and from the earth all that it can give; and this obligation is all the more imperative that we are absolutely ignorant of what limits – they may still be very distant – God has imposed on our natural understanding and power.

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.

One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.

It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.

We all gonna die eventually from something or other, but don’t be a wimp. Put up a good fight.

We pledge ourselves to liberate all our people from the continuing bondage of poverty, deprivation, suffering, gender and other discrimination.

If you change and adapt your persona, you are seen as inauthentic; if you stay the angry young man, you fade from attention or seem tiresome.

All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.

There is nothing I fear more than waking up without a program that will help me bring a little happiness to those with no resources, those who are poor, illiterate, and ridden with terminal disease.

Someday, the capitalist system will disappear in the United States, because no social class system has been eternal. One day, class societies will disappear.

Fiction is like a spider’s web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.

One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one’s death, one dies one’s life.

Millions of people die every day. Everyone’s got to go sometime.

All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us that we are all more alike than we are unalike.

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

Life would be tragic if it weren’t funny.

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

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

I like gaps; all my stories have gaps. It seems this is the way people’s lives present themselves.

Free government is the most difficult of all government. But it is everlastingly true that the plain people will make fewer mistakes than any other group of men, no matter how powerful.

I am just one human being.

The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.

You see the film, you might be entertained, and if it’s not a great film, it loses its power very quickly. I think even simply acceptable books stay with us a lot longer.

Art is the proper task of life.

Things ain’t what they used to be and never were.

Remember, it is not about voting for the perfect candidate – there is no such thing. Presidents are human.

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong.

It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It’s called living.

You can’t move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn’t mean you do nothing, but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority.

For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.

Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.

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

I see drawings and pictures in the poorest of huts and the dirtiest of corners.

If we want to reduce poverty and misery, if we want to give to every deserving individual what is needed for a safe existence of an intelligent being, we want to provide more machinery, more power. Power is our mainstay, the primary source of our many-sided energies.

I sometimes wish I were suffering in a good cause, or risking my life for the good of others, instead of just being a gravely endangered patient.

No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.

It’s not morbid to talk about death. Most people don’t worry about death, they worry about a bad death.

Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.

Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.

Soon, I’ll be like all the others. The time will come for all of us, but the ideas of the Cuban Communists will remain.

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.

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.

The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.

Since the beginning, it was just the same. The only difference, the crowds are bigger now.

Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.

When it’s your time, it is your time.

Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.

Life begins on the other side of despair.

The true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Nothing recedes like progress.

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

Power is like being a lady… if you have to tell people you are, you aren’t.

Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.

To bear means to support the weight of that which is held. It is a sacred trust to bear the priesthood, which is the mighty power and authority of God.

The world moves, and ideas that were once good are not always good.