The prisoner is not the one who has commited a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over.

If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.

Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring.

In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.

A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.

It is with the soul that we grasp the essence of another human being, not with the mind, nor even with the heart.

either you take in believing in miracles or you stand still like the hummingbird.

Chaos is the score upon which reality is written.

Art is only a means to life, the life more abundant. It merely points the way.

Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything - except his own nature.

When I look at my old pictures, all I can see is what I used to be but am no longer. I think: What I can see is what I am not.

Unlike Saudi Arabia, Russia, and China, the United States was created by an enlightened band of Founding Fathers with a global vision for the new republic.

He was like a song I'd heard once in fragments but had been singing in my mind ever since.

There is a fear of the Lord which is the beginning of wisdom, which is founded in love. There is also a slavish fear, which is a mere dread of evil, and is purely selfish.

The Republican Party's reacting now to the news of [Donald] Trump's dominance in different ways. For some, they are pushing resistance.

A mind wishing to benefit other people and other sentient beings is the very basis of peace and happiness.

Speak, move, act in peace.

And lot of Asian audiences and reporters don't like me to act as a bad guy. But I think I want to become an actor, I want to try different way.

Show me a clever nation; then I will show you a clever government!

The whole object of education is...to develop the mind. The mind should be a thing that works.