True freedom is tolerant. It gives people the right to live and think in new ways.

Almost every important choice in our lives is really just an expression of hope.

Every new experience is unusual. The rest of life is just sleep and committee meetings.

Walking is easy ... but it requires faith to find the right path.

If privacy had a gravestone it might read: 'Don't Worry. This Was for Your Own Good.

Many physicists these days sound like the Delphic oracle - with equations.

Human beings have an almost unlimited capacity for self-delusion. We can justify any amount of sadness if it fits our own particular standard of reality.

Life is dangerous. That's what makes it interesting.

We in the West seem to have made a fetish out of complete individual self-sufficiency, of not needing help, of being completely private except in a very few selected relationships.

I love going to all kinds of movies, I screen DVDs in my house, but I go to the theatre a lot in the afternoon. I don't get bugged because there aren't many people around.

You have nothing to sell except for the image: The image is everything.

Depth of feeling and clarity of thought isn’t the same as knowing.

The workers and peasants must, as quickly as possible, seize everything that was created by them over many centuries and use it for their own interests.

Well, great authors are great people - but I believe that they are best seen at a distance.

People will always despise you if you end up doing less stupid BS than they choose to suffer.

One of the oldest secrets of alchemy is that every living thing, from the most complex creatures right down to the simplest leaf, carries the seeds of its creation within itself.

I have always had a dream to take part in an Olympic Games, and losing my leg didn't change anything.

I hope this match never ends. When the match ends, the memories begin.