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“I've been in and out of Wall Street since 1949, and I've never seen the type of animosity between government and Wall Street. And I'm not sure where it comes from, but I suspect it's got to do with a general schism in this society which is really becoming ever more destructive.”
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“A profound thought is in a constant state of becoming; it adopts the experience of a life and assumes its shape.”
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“I recognized him then; that is, I finally comprehended what I had known but had never been able to formulate: he had always been complete. He had finished the work of becoming himself, long before any of us could even imagine such a feat was possible.”
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“The more honest and authentic we are, the more deeply we go into the mystery of our own being..”
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“An honest man with an open Bible and a pad and pencil is sure to find out what is wrong with him very quickly.”
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“Human beings are unable to be honest with themselves about themselves. They cannot talk about themselves without embellishing.”
Source : Akira Kurosawa, Donald Richie (1987). “Rashomon”, p.116, Rutgers University Press
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“Our great error is that we suppose mankind to be more honest than they are.”
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“There is also hope that even in these days of increasing specialization there is a unity in the human experience.”
Source : Allan McLeod Cormack's Speech at the Nobel Banquet, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1979. 
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“There are many who stay away from church these days because you hardly ever mention God any more.”
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“I would like to teach music. It's weird the way they teach music in schools like Julliard these days.”
