“How much truth can a spirit bear, how much truth can a spirit dare?… that became for me more and more the real measure of value.”

“How much of this truth can I bear to see and still live
unblinded?
How much of this pain
can I use?”

“I speak truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare; and I dare a little the more as I grow older.”

“No matter how far our spiritual culture may continue to progress, no matter how much the natural sciences may grow, becoming ever more profound and more inclusive, no matter how much the human spirit may will to expand, that human spirit will never escape from the majesty and ethical sublimity of Christianity, as it shimmers and shines in the Gospels.”

“In Jeet Kune Do, it’s not how much you have learned, but how much you have absorbed from what you have learned. It is not how much fixed knowledge you can accumulate, but what you can apply livingly that counts. ‘Being’ is more valued than "doing."”

“The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel… its poverty by how little.”

“How can my limitations in humanity bring me the truth? How can I find truth that I don't know?”

“What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?”

“The only measurable and therefore undebatably existing human value is the instrumental value of an individual. There can be a justified hierarchy of individuals based on how much the removal of their talents or skills would weaken the community.”

“Journalists can help people by telling the truth, or by as much truth as they can find, and acting not as agents of governments, of power, but of people. That is real journalism. The rest is specious and false.”