Men and women fall in love abandoning reality in favour of the dream

When the hypocrisy of life appears we often fail to recognise it or the question it raises

Since science and religion provide two different perspectives on the human situation, they must ultimately be able to be reconciled.

What's needed on Earth is love of the dark side of ourselves

The truth is, the hypocrisy of humans is everywhere

Mother's love created our awe-inspiring moral sense

The increasingly thoughtful child can see the whole horribly upset world and would be understandably totally bewildered and deeply troubled by it

A fresh approach is needed — an analysis of our human situation from a basis that recognises and confronts the psychological dimension to our behaviour

Love is unconditional selflessness

Finding understanding of the human condition is what rehabilitates and transforms the human race

Pseudo idealism: apparent charitable behaviour that on scrutiny is revealed as selfish, because the giver is engaging in it only so that he or she can feel good about him or herself

But one must do something about the past. It doesn’t just cease to be. It goes on existing and affecting the present, and in new and different ways, as if in some other dimension it too were growing.

We had very few things. I had a couple pairs of jeans, a couple shirts. And same with my mom and sister. I think my sister had, like, two toys. We were living off of instant noodles.

I write a lot, and then forget what I've written, and then come back to it and say, "Not bad, I should do something with this!"

It was like a heart transplant. We tried to implant college in him but his head rejected it.

The audience will always forgive you for being wrong and exciting, but never for being right and dull.

There is something that falls short of perfection in every book, without exception, something influenced by the age, even something ridiculous; just like everyone, without exception, has weaknesses.

O Lord...Let my knowing of you not just be in my mind, but fully alive inside my heart...remove ‘me’...let there be only you

Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.

"What do women want?" "They eat green salad and drink human blood."

I think it's very admirable, in a superhero movie, to be able to take a few risks.