Although beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, the feeling of being beautiful exists solely in the mind of the beheld.

I spend a lot of time balancing between faith and disbelief.

Mirrors are the essence of movies.

It's always more interesting to take on someone that's going to have hidden sides or a fatal flaw, because there's going to be more to play with - more conflict, internally or in and around them - but...

A good traveller is one who does not know where he is going to, and a perfect traveller does not know where he came from.

Healthy people live with their world.

What is truth? Truth doesn't really exist. Who is going to judge whether my experience of an incident is more valid than yours? No one can be trusted to be the judge of that.

To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelations of truth.

The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.

Every experience makes you a man.

God cannot be realized through the intellect. Intellect can lead one to a certain extent and no further. It is a matter of faith and experience derived from that faith.

Another way of judging the value of a prophet's religious experience, therefore, would be to examine the type of manhood that he has created, and the cultural world that has sprung out of the spirit...

If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation.

While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness is not justified, at any...

Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God.

All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions.

What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.

I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally; I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just...

Some people think that religion is not essential to society. I do not hold this view. I consider the foundation of religion to be essential to the life and practices of a society.

What people are really after is, what is my stance on religion or spirituality or God? And I would say, if I find a word that came closest, it would be agnostic.

Even when a person has all of life's comforts - good food, good shelter, a companion - he or she can still become unhappy when encountering a tragic situation.

In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.

Man is the most intelligent of the animals - and the most silly.

Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk.

In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.

Death calls ye to the crowd of common men.

Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.

People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend.

Though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find...