The answer to human life is not to be found within the limits of human life.

Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.

Life really does begin at forty. Up until then, you are just doing research.

To be normal is the ultimate aim of the unsuccessful.

Do not compare, do not measure. No other way is like yours. All other ways deceive and tempt you. You must fulfill the way that is in you.

The world will ask you who you are, and if you don't know, the world will tell you.

The difference between a good life and a bad life is how well you walk through the fire

If our religion is based on salvation, our chief emotions will be fear and trembling. If our religion is based on wonder, our chief emotion will be gratitude.

We are not what happened to us, we are what we wish to become.

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it.

Children, bored and opinionated, are scholars of the most dogmatic stripe.

If there is anyone here whom I have not insulted I beg his pardon.

The Marines was a fresh start - that is why they shave your head. I wish they would let you change your name.

My mother gets all mad at me if I stay in a hotel. I'm 31-years-old, and I don't want to sleep on a sleeping bag down in the basement. It's humiliating.

The truest communication with God is absolute, total silence; there is not a single word in existence that can convey this communication.

In Minnesota it's so cold some nights you have to wear two condoms.

Money is bounded; we only have so much of it. Love goes on forever.

Unless the Security Council is restored to its pre-eminent position as the sole source of legitimacy on the use of force, we are on a dangerous path to anarchy.

I have less control over how I'm cast and the jobs that I get than people would imagine. Most of us don't have control over that, but I think it's a preponderance of your body of work.

We are more sensible of what is done against custom than against nature.