Gospel music is never pessimistic, it’s never ‚oh my god, its all going down the tubes‘, like the blues often is.

Encouragement to others is something everyone can give. Somebody needs what you have to give. It may not be your money; it may be your time. It may be your listening ear. It may be your arms to encourage. It may be your smile to uplift. Who knows?

The innocence of childhood is like the innocence of a lot of animals.

As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.

I’m pretty sure in my older years, I’ll be doing old-time flavored folk-mountain music.

In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.

Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn’t argue with that; I’m right and I will be proved right. We’re more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first – rock and roll or Christianity.

Trap is new. It didn’t start yesterday, but when I was 5, it didn’t exist – not even in the U.S. I’ve evolved with the music.

It is far more difficult to murder a phantom than a reality.

Unlike many of its European neighbors, Britain shares many of America’s financial traits.

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.

Apple’s market share is bigger than BMW’s or Mercedes’s or Porsche’s in the automotive market. What’s wrong with being BMW or Mercedes?

There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less.

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

Hell is a half-filled auditorium.

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.

If I had to choose a superhero to be, I would pick Superman. He’s everything that I’m not.

For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

A correct answer is like an affectionate kiss.

No, there’s something about the sing-song cadence of children’s music that has its place in rock.

We judge people in areas where we’re vulnerable to shame, especially picking folks who are doing worse than we’re doing.

I have found that, in the composition of the human body as compared with the bodies of animals, the organs of sense are duller and coarser. Thus, it is composed of less ingenious instruments, and of spaces less capacious for receiving the faculties of sense.

A lot of people have it a lot worse than you do.

Before you try to keep up with the Joneses, be sure they’re not trying to keep up with you.

The science of psychology has been far more successful on the negative than on the positive side… It has revealed to us much about man’s shortcomings, his illnesses, his sins, but little about his potentialities, his virtues, his achievable aspirations, or his psychological health.

Clothes if they are not well cut, you can kill nobody. A building poorly built can kill people. It’s a much more difficult work. I would not compare myself with that.

Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.

French fries kill more people than guns and sharks, yet nobody’s afraid of French fries.

I’ve done a number of Super Bowl ads. And that is the best advertising of the year. That is when people realize they’re going to be compared directly against other ads.

What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.

Video is growing very quickly on Facebook. A lot of people compare that to YouTube. I think that kind of makes sense. YouTube isn’t the only video service, but I think it’s the biggest, and it probably makes more sense to compare Facebook video to YouTube rather than Netflix because that’s a completely different kind of content.

I think sometimes the critics want me to beat people down, and that’s not in me. I want to lift people up.

An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.

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

Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.

If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia.

Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.

People should not make me out to be like Jesus; I don’t walk on water.

Chemistry can be a good and bad thing. Chemistry is good when you make love with it. Chemistry is bad when you make crack with it.

Earth might one day soon resemble the planet Venus.

It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that which uplifts the spirit within us.

Music is like film to me.

A majority is always better than the best repartee.

People like bluegrass. It’s had a following amongst a lot of hip and young people. A lot of college kids like bluegrass.

Why would anyone steal a shopping cart? It’s like stealing a two-year-old.

The only difference between Benito and Bad Bunny is 16 million followers on Instagram. And the money that Bad Bunny has in the bank. Benito had, like, $7. The numbers are different, but I’m still the same. Even my insecurities remain the same.

A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

‚Kiss Land‘ is like a horror movie.

It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.

David Icke reminded me of Malcolm X.

Jesus is ideal and wonderful, but you Christians – you are not like him.

Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.

What’s so powerful about the Psalms are, as well as they’re being gospel and songs of praise, they are also the blues.

Reggaeton is something else – it is part of pop culture. It is something very big that I don’t believe will ever die.

There are not a few among the disciples of charity who require, in their vocation, scarcely less excitement than the votaries of pleasure in theirs.

Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.

I would go to the deeps a hundred times to cheer a downcast spirit. It is good for me to have been afflicted, that I might know how to speak a word in season to one that is weary.

Can people who hunger so desperately for what other people have ever have enough?

Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.

A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.