It's not always easy to distinguish between existentialism and a bad mood.

I read once, somewhere, that the way you know you've grown up is when your future death becomes a stone in your shoe: when you feel it with every step.

Don't care about gods. Gods are irrelevant. What counts is people. What counts is having respect for each other.

Life is mere chance only when one allows it to be

I always feel the movement is a sort of mosaic. Each of us puts in one little stone, and then you get a great mosaic at the end.

Because success is such a weasel word anyway, it's such a horribly American word, and it's such a vamp and, I think it's a death trap.

Habit is not mere subjugation, it is a tender tie; when one remembers habit it seems to have been happiness.

All knowledge is in response to a question. If there were no question, there would be no scientific knowledge. Nothing proceeds from itself.

I realize how quickly lies compound. They cover like a coat of paint, one on top of the other, until you cannot remember what color you started with.

A satyagrahi loves his so-called enemy even as he loves his friend. He has no enemy.

I don't believe in curfews, because you can't treat men like they were boys without forfeiting a certain level of trust.

The more we study Art, the less we care for Nature. What Art really reveals to us is Nature's lack of design, her curious crudities, her extraordinary monotony, her absolutely unfinished condition.

Death's not a separation or alteration or parting; it's just a one-handled door.

For acting, darlings, is the world's most perilous trade. Compared with actors, steeple jacks and deep-sea divers lead snug and placid lives.