Lee

"We are not trapped or locked up in these bones."

"Evil is not something to be done away with as a kind of awful tumor. There is no triumph in it."

"The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power."

"The Chinese term Timshel means 'thou mayest'—not 'thou shalt.'"

"You are so right. That's exactly it. We are all sinners."

"Loneliness is a human experience. It is never a lie."

"There's something I want you to understand."

"I believe the only creative thing our people have to contribute is probably the structure of our families."

"The atom itself is only an idea."

"There is no natural selection. There is only the selection of consciousness."

"You don't have to be driven crazy by the past."

"You are free. That's the hardest thing in the world to understand."

"It's the hardest choice you can make in all the world."

"Timshel - thou mayest. That gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world."

"We are not trapped unless we believe we are trapped."

"The concept of time interested Lee profoundly. He believed that the universe was not only queerer than supposed, but queerer than could be supposed."

"People are not afraid of things but of other people."

"A man only understands what already lies in his own heart."

"A really great man is the man who makes everyone feel great."

"Destruction and creation are the same thing."

"There's no word for it but it's the beating of the universe."

"There's no way to triumph truly over an evil thing by avoiding it."

"Everything that is alive comes from somewhere and has the universe in it."

"Every man has his own reasons for his actions."

"The world is new every morning if you know how to look at it."

"We are not trapped or locked up in these bones. No, no. We are free to change. And that to me is the most thrilling thing about living."

"Timidity is the ancestor of all guilt."

"The knowledge that you are not alone in the battle makes you braver."

"A man can change what he thinks about himself when he thinks about himself differently."

"Goodness is something chosen. When a man cannot choose he ceases to be a man."