Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.

The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven’s sake.

I’m gonna be making records anyway, even if I had to sell ‚em out of the trunk of my car. I’m that kind of musician and singer.

I only act from my heart.

It has not yet become obvious to me that there’s no real problem. I cannot define the real problem; therefore, I suspect there’s no real problem, but I’m not sure there’s no real problem.

I think the materialist conception of history is valid.

The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.

On a bike, being just slightly above pedestrian and car eye level, one gets a perfect view of the goings-on in one’s own town.

Nashville is my home, and the reason why I get to do what I love.

You know, people talk about this being an uncertain time. You know, all time is uncertain. I mean, it was uncertain back in – in 2007, we just didn’t know it was uncertain. It was – uncertain on September 10th, 2001. It was uncertain on October 18th, 1987, you just didn’t know it.

The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.

It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.

Well, when you come down to it, I don’t see that a reporter could do much to a president, do you?

The kind of fiction I’m trying to write is about telling the truth.

Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.

It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

I’m super serious about music. That’s, like, the only thing I’m serious about.

When you’re around me and really see that all I do is live and breathe for my work, it’s not strange, it’s just Gaga.

All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent.

Plato is my friend; Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.

Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.

The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him.

The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.

I didn’t want to be a fashion designer, and for a good half of my career I didn’t like it. I always wanted to do other things.

Engineering training deals with the exact sciences. That sort of exactness makes for truth and conscience. It might be good for the world if more men had that sort of mental start in life even if they did not pursue the profession.

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

When I was young, poverty was so common that we didn’t know it had a name.

Love is the answer to everything. It’s the only reason to do anything. If you don’t write stories you love, you’ll never make it. If you don’t write stories that other people love, you’ll never make it.

Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.

I don’t live for the accolades. I’m more so about the music. Making it, and putting it out. Those are the two best feelings.

I was lucky – I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents‘ garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years, Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees.

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

It may be, it just may be, that life as we know it with its humanity is more unique than many have thought.

One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

As a Western, ‚The Magnificent Seven‘ was a pretty good film. I don’t think it was as interesting or as multi-faceted as ‚Seven Samurai.‘

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.

Some men see things as they are, and say why. I dream of things that never were, and say why not.

Sometimes we look back and 10 years from now we think, ‚Boy, those were great old days.‘ Well, you know, we’re living in the good old days.

It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

Silence is the mother of truth.

I can express all my views on the slavery question by quotations from Henry Clay.

In the wake of the events of 11 September 2001, it now seems clear that the shock of the attacks was exploited in America.

The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.

We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds.

As long as the people don’t fear the truth, there is hope. For once they fear it, the one who tells it doesn’t stand a chance. And today, truth is still beautiful… but so frightening.

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.

Remember you are just an extra in everyone else’s play.

Basically, I live to do gigs.

The lie is a condition of life.

Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.

Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.

Peace if possible, truth at all costs.

I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.

Things don’t have to change the world to be important.

To be honest, I think kids have got a lot more going on than adults. They’ve got their heads screwed on a lot better.

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

Let a man get up and say, Behold, this is the truth, and instantly I perceive a sandy cat filching a piece of fish in the background. Look, you have forgotten the cat, I say.