Fate and necessity are unconquerable.

Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.

Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.

The evening of life brings with it its lamps.

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

Close your eyes and you will see.

Some skeptics believe religious people are religious because they fear Hell. It's about as fair as saying skeptics are skeptics because they fear the ridicule of modern society.

One of the great breakthroughs of evolution theory is that you start with simple things and they will grow into complexity.

In the middle of my third Hollywood picture The Magician, the earthquake hit Hollywood. Not the real earthquake. Just the talkies.

Without action, the world would still be an idea.

I have to create an object which resembles the tree. The sign for a tree, and not the sign that other artists may have found for the tree.

When in doubt, pig out!

Every man is wholly honest to himself and to God, but not to any one else.

The methods and tools of science perennially breach barriers, granting me confidence that our epic march of insight into the operations of nature will continue without end.

Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted.

In between, I go broke because I seem to do movies where you're not paid a lot as an actor.