Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance.

When a truth is not given complete freedom, freedom is not complete.

The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.

Just as the constant increase of entropy is the basic law of the universe, so it is the basic law of life to be ever more highly structured and to struggle against entropy.

I think at this stage in my life I have learned that there are any number of things that men will never know, and can never hope to know, about women.

Everything that I learned in the Navy, I took it with me into the next phase of my life.

As an actor, you get to sort of bounce back and forth in terms of the age range you play and the life experience that your characters have.

The most important thing in arithmetic is not the shapes of the numbers but the reality living in them. This living reality has much more meaning for the spiritual world than what lives in reading and writing.