“How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean.”
“Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.”
“The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.”
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
“You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.”
“Everything should be beautiful in a person: the face, the clothes, the soul, and the thoughts.”
“Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.”
“The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.”
“Medicine is my lawful wife and literature is my mistress.”
“A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.”
“There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.”
“The traveller sees what he sees; the tourist sees what he has come to see.”
“Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.”
“Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.”
“The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.”
“I rebel—therefore I exist.”
“Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.”
“Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.”
“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”
“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”