If you're not satisfied with the way the world is, or if you think the world can be better, you have to figure out a way to know yourself and better yourself. Then you have the assurance that something in the world has improved.

There are still people who believe in that and wake up every day believing it's possible, and invest their whole selves in that.

The problem turned out to be that I never was that kind of an artist.

If you will, then you will, for nothing can withstand your will. As your faith is, so you are, where your mind is there you are.

There are some things that we know are just not as pleasant as the lies that we tell ourselves, and in that sense in order to endure existence everyone endures a certain amount of dishonesty in their everyday lives.

Behind every tree there's a new monster.

I know that I could make this world peaceful and calm, if I only could get my hands on a hydrogen bomb.