Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark on the face, especially the eyes.

Particularly Instagram, people look like they have a much better life than they really do. People basically seem like they are way better-looking than they really are, and they are way happier-seeming than they really are.

I left Mainz after 18 years and thought, ‚Next time, I will work with a little less of my heart.‘ I said that because we all cried for a week. The city gave us a goodbye party, and it lasted a week.

In time we hate that which we often fear.

There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.

Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.

The Vietnam War was a great tragedy for our country. And it is now far enough away so that one can study without using the slogans to see what’s really happened.

I feel, as a songwriter, it’s one of the hardest things to do – to sit down and say how you feel.

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

I’ve found men are less likely to let petty things annoy them.

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

I am not handsome or sexy. Of course, it’s not like I am hopeless.

I didn’t mean to hit the umpire with the dirt, but I did mean to hit that bastard in the stands.

U2 is an original species… there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.

I’m a human being and I fall in love and sometimes I don’t have control of every situation.

When Clark Gable died, I cried for 2 days straight. I couldn’t eat or sleep.

The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.

If it’s all instruction, you get annoyed with it and bored, and you stop reading. If it’s all entertainment, you read it quite quickly, your heart going pitty-pat, pitty-pat. But when you finish, that’s it. You’re not going to think about it much afterward, apart from the odd nightmare. You’re not going to read that book again.

When a man bleeds inwardly, it is a dangerous thing for himself; but when he laughs inwardly, it bodes no good to other people.

A lot of the time when I write about the person that I love, I feel like I’m writing about New York.

Being a sex symbol is a heavy load to carry, especially when one is tired, hurt and bewildered.

Hatred is self-punishment.

Boys do cry, but I don’t think I shed a tear for a good chunk of my teenage years.

I am odd-looking. I sometimes think I look like a funny Muppet.

Science never makes things that do not have to do with what we feel, by which I mean what we want and what we fear.

Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.

He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.

There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.

You don’t carry in your countenance a letter of recommendation.

One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end.

The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.

I remember at the age of five travelling on a trolley car with my mother past a group of women on a picket line at a textile plant, seeing them being viciously beaten by security people. So that kind of thing stayed with me.

Ain’t nothing like a good cry.

The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.

Feelings are more dangerous than ideas, because they aren’t susceptible to rational evaluation. They grow quietly, spreading underground, and erupt suddenly, all over the place.

God doesn’t dwell in the wooden, stony or earthen idols. His abode is in our feelings, our thoughts.

I cry very easily. It can be a movie, a phone conversation, a sunset – tears are words waiting to be written.

Make no mistake about why these babies are here – they are here to replace us.

What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat?

The good times of today, are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.

Those whom we can love, we can hate; to others we are indifferent.

I believe that one person can make a difference.

One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.

If I cry, it’s because I’m very angry and I can’t do anything about it because I’ve run into a dead end. That’s when the tears would come down.

Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.

Happiness is within the reach of everyone, rich or poor. Yet comparatively few people are happy. I believe the reason for this is that the majority don’t recognize happiness even when it is within their grasp.

It is only at the first encounter that a face makes its full impression on us.

The most impactful dollars that Australia can spend are actually what goes to help the poorest.

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

At fifty everyone has the face he deserves.

In memory everything seems to happen to music.

I think love is one of the purest things you can sing about. One of the best things you can sing about.

People like music when they’re in love, but they don’t need it as much. You need music when you’re missing someone or you’re pining for someone or you’re forgetting someone or you’re trying to process what just happened.

When I am angry I can pray well and preach well.

Every single one of us has a few months here or there that feel like dark months.

We have but one permanent home: heaven – that’s still the old truth that we always have to re-learn – and it’s only through the impact of sad experiences that we assimilate it.

I feel like people can relate to me because we all go through wins and roadblocks and passion and pain, and it’s a vibe.

You know how big love is? Love is big. love can hold anger; love can even hold hatred.

Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere.

Vanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism. So I distance myself, because I feel everything.