To be civilized, really, is to be aware of the others, their hopes, their gladnesses, their illusions about life.

Dare to be strong and courageous. That is the road. Venture anything.

The object of art is not to make salable pictures. It is to save yourself.

The lives of people are like young trees in a forest. They are being choked by climbing vines. The vines are old thoughts and beliefs planted by dead men.

You won’t arrive. It is an endless search.

There is within every human being a deep well of thinking over which a heavy iron lid is kept clamped.

I think the whole glory of writing lies in the fact that it forces us out of ourselves and into the lives of others.

The thing of course, is to make yourself alive. Most people remain all of their lives in a stupor.

I go about looking at horses and cattle. They eat grass, make love, work when they have to, bear their young. I am sick with envy of them.

It was a cold day but the sun was out and the trees were like great bonfires against gray distant fields and hills.

The whole object of education is...to develop the mind. The mind should be a thing that works.

I know, from the three visits I made to him, the blended composite of love and fear that exists only in a boy's notion of his father.

Christmas is about change. It’s a time we open our hearts before we open our presents.

Wetenschap is wat wetenschappers doen - Science is what scientists do.

Hope is a willing slave; despair is free.

Why limit yourself to what your eyes see when you have an opportunity to extend your vision?

Every man carries with him the world in which he must live.

Living in different cultures helped me work out who I was going to be, separate from where I came from.

Every once in a while, magicians strike gold. David Regal has created and produced the perfect close-up illusion.

Nearly always when actors are approached by the beauticians, they try to avoid the dabs that the beauticians put on their faces. They dodge them.

Because you cannot see him, God is everywhere.