An attempt to achieve the good by force is like an attempt to provide a man with a picture gallery at the price of cutting out his eyes.

Humor is not an unconditional virtue; its moral character depends on its object. To laugh at the contemptible, is a virtue; to laugh at the good, is a hideous vice. Too often, humor is used as the camouflage of moral cowardice.

Kira, the highest thing in man is not his god. It's that in him which knows the reverence due a god. And you, Kira, are my highest reverence.

I'm not brave enough to be a coward; I see the consequences too clearly.

The great creators-the thinkers, the artists, the scientists, the inventors-stood alone against the men of their time.

I never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible to be beyond my reach.

Never ask people about your work.