Language is a tool for understanding and empathy, and literature is its most powerful expression.

The most powerful and sustaining motivation for success comes from within, not from anticipating rewards that come from the outside.

The meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not to be traded and conceptualized and squeezed into a pattern of systems

I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as the reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go. Reality doesn’t impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.

Laws are always unstable unless they are founded on the manners of a nation; and manners are the only durable and resisting power in a people

It’s clearly a crisis of two things: of consciousness and conditioning. We have the technological power, the engineering skills to save our planet, to cure disease, to feed the hungry, to end war; But we lack the intellectual vision, the ability to change our minds.

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth

I don’t think I ever expected anything like an Oscar ever, to tell you the truth. That is not my motivation when I do these roles. I really am motivated by being able to work with great people and create a body of work that I can look back and be proud

Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than the one with all the facts.

The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking…the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

Perhaps Jesus is asking of you a little task, and, if you find it, later He will ask of you something that is greater. Always keep your eyes open for the little task, because it is the little task which is important to Jesus Christ. The future of the Kingdom of God does not depend on the enthusiasm of this or that powerful person; those great ones are necessary too, but it is equally necessary to have a great number of little people who will do a little thing in the service of Christ.

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

When we attempt to exercise power or control over someone else, we cannot avoid giving that person the very same power or control over us

It seems probable that once the machine thinking method had started, it would not take long to outstrip our feeble powers… They would be able to converse with each other to sharpen their wits. At some stage therefore, we should have to expect the machines to take control.

Pay bad people with your goodness; fight their hatred with your kindness. Even if you do not achieve victory over other people, you will conquer yourself.

Let us forgive each other—only then will we live in peace.