The more men believe an idea to be true the greater the likelihood that the idea is mistaken. Those who are right usually stand alone.

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.

I found I had less and less to say, until finally, I became silent, and began to listen. I discovered in the silence, the voice of God

It is not the path which is the difficulty; rather, it is the difficulty which is the path.

The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you'll never have.

A man prayed, and at first he thought that prayer was talking. But he became more and more quiet until in the end he realized prayer is listening.

For without risk there is no faith, and the greater the risk, the greater the faith.

It is not where we breathe, but where we Love, that we live.

Once you label me you negate me.

Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.

Actions reveal… If you have to TELL me you’re honest, caring, generous, spiritual, kind, loving, and a good person... you’re doing it wrong.

Dandies, who – as you know - scorn all emotions as being beneath them, and do not believe, like that simpleton Goethe, that astonishment can ever be a proper feeling for the human mind.

The truth is that no matter how many retakes you do, each will be different and that is the nature of any creative medium. There's no such thing as perfection.

Life, like poker has an element of risk. It shouldn't be avoided. It should be faced.

On Creating — What we crave, what we want to see in others eyes, is that servile expression, an unconcealed infatuation with our gestures.

Well, we are terribly divided politically, yes, and, you know, I don't mean to intimidate you and your listeners but I have a master's degree in anthropology from the University of Chicago.

It's not a cry you can hear at night. It's not somebody who has seen the light. It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah.

Yeats, you need ten years in the library, but I have need of ten years in the wilderness.

And then you have the classical ballerinas, they're like sopranos. Applied to the dance.

It's our machines and our technologies that are now the major evolutionary forces acting upon us. It's not our political systems.