Our system is the height of absurdity, since we treat the culprit both as a child, so as to have the right to punish him, and as an adult, in order to deny him consolation.

The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions.

Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing.

The world began without man, and it will complete itself without him.

Objects are what matter. Only they carry the evidence that throughout the centuries something really happened among human beings.

Nor must we forget that in science there are no final truths.

I am the place in which something has occurred.

The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions.

I think that a society cannot live without a certain number of irrational beliefs. They are protected from criticism and analysis because they are irrational.

Just as the individual is not alone in the group, nor anyone in society alone among the others, so man is not alone in the universe.

Animals are good to think with.

Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.

When we learn how to become resilient, we learn how to embrace the beautifully broad spectrum of the human experience.

Always, with any movie that I do, I have a book of ideas that I've heard, or seen, or whatever, and I always try to incorporate it in the film.

Politeness is sometimes a great tax upon sincerity.

The joys of the evil flow away like a torrent.

Creative innovation requires knowing something. You can't just be a monkey throwing paint on a canvas. It's the 10,000-hour rule: You need to know something well enough to make something new.

That Man indeed can never be good at heart, who is full of himself and his own Endowments.

Everybody I know who goes out and plays a little softball, they break their leg.

I didn't have a problem with rejection, because when you go into an audition, you're rejected already. There are hundreds of other actors. You're behind the eight ball when you go in there.

With wild eyes that had seen freedom.