Norton Juster Quotes

Nothing is absolute any longer. There is a choice of beliefs and a choice of truths to go with them. If you choose not to choose then there is no truth at all. There are only points of view.

It's easy to judge, to think we know for certain the right thing to do. Sometimes, it just isn't so clear.

There are no answers, only choices.

Everything in life is gray, you know.

We don't live in a world that's black and white.

The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind.

I have a problem when people say something's real or not real, or normal or abnormal. The meaning of those words for me is very personal and subjective. I've always been confused and never had a clearcut understanding of the meaning of those kinds of words.

Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.

It's easy to get into the grey zone [of ethics].

There aren't always a hell of a lot of absolutely right answers out there.

Sometimes there are no good guys. There are no bad guys. It seems like everybody is in the middle.

I don't believe anyone is good or bad. It's about the choices we make, about how we deal with situations.

It's really rare in life that a situation is as black and white as we tend to paint it.

You always have a choice. It's just that some people make the wrong one.

As an actor, you're always in situations that can be compromising. But you can wipe away that gray area by making a choice.

Some make light of decisions, arguing that all possible decisions will occur. In such a world, how could one be responsible for his actions? Others hold that each decision must be considered and committed to, that without commitment there is chaos. Such people are content to live in contradictory worlds, so long as they know the reason for each.

I'm still not sure I made the right choice when I told my wife about the bakery attack.But then,it might not have been a question of right or wrong. Which is to say that wrong choices can produce right results, and vice versa. I myself have adopted the position that,in fact, we never choose anything at all. Things happen. Or not.

But now I wonder--what if everyone is pretty much the same and it's just a thousand small choices that add up to the person you are? No good or evil, no black and white, no inner demons or angels whispering the right answers in our ears like it's some cosmic SAT test. Just us, hour by hour, minute by minute, day by day,making the best choices we can. The thought is horrifying. If that's true, then there's no right choice. There's only choice.

You will find no answers here, just choices.

The issues of the choice between right and wrong has to be an ongoing concern for everybody, at every age. There is no magical point in a human life when anyone is or becomes immune to the second-by-second choice to do right instead of wrong.

Everything is true and not true about everything. That’s one thing I’ve learned.

Moral: It all depends.

We make choices everyday, some of them good, some of them bad. And - if we are strong enough - we live with the consequences.

I don't really think in absolutes.

We can make choices, but we can be vulnerable; we can do the wrong thing, but the wrong thing for all the right reasons. I think it [life] is basically about forgiveness, and not about someone else forgiving you, but you forgiving yourself. I think we all want a lot of that.