Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.

My father used to have an expression. He’d say, ‚Joey, a job is about a lot more than a paycheck. It’s about your dignity. It’s about respect. It’s about your place in your community.‘

Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.

Political language… is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

If you wear clothes that don’t suit you, you’re a fashion victim. You have to wear clothes that make you look better.

If I can get my dress on, my weight is under control.

All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is.

Girdles and wire stays should have never been invented. No man wants to hug a padded bird cage.

Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them.

Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.

A person hears only what they understand.

Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.

No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth.

In my opinion, there is no aspect of reality beyond the reach of the human mind.

Why should I care about posterity? What’s posterity ever done for me?

No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.

You say that you are my judge; I do not know if you are; but take good heed not to judge me ill, because you would put yourself in great peril.

The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.

Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.

America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.

I try never to wear my own clothes, I pretend I’m someone else.

My clothes are very popular in Japan.

Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?

No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.

Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true.

Fashion is life-enhancing, and I think it’s a lovely, generous thing to do for other people.

There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.

Through Kurt I saw the beauty of minimalism and the importance of music that’s stripped down.

I don’t care if people think I am an overactor, as long as they enjoy what I do. People who think that would call Van Gogh an overpainter.

Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.

I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition.

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

If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence.

I’m not sure what I think about current fashion, though. A few years ago, I would have said it’s really, really bad and you hardly ever see anybody looking good. There must be some very good designers in the world.

Everybody has their thing they like or don’t like to see. It’s all in your head. That’s why people take their own pictures, because it’s difficult for someone else to capture what you seek.

America is a Nation with a mission – and that mission comes from our most basic beliefs. We have no desire to dominate, no ambitions of empire. Our aim is a democratic peace – a peace founded upon the dignity and rights of every man and woman.

It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.

The more you are talked about the less powerful you are.

I’m not really concerned with portraying this tough warrior – I mean, that’s part of my job and I take that very seriously. But I don’t have anything to hide, and I’m not concerned with what people think.

If you think dealing with issues like worthiness and authenticity and vulnerability are not worthwhile because there are more pressing issues, like the bottom line or attendance or standardized test scores, you are sadly, sadly mistaken. It underpins everything.

To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.

The difference between humans and other mammals is that we know how to accessorize.

We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.

Not everyone can see the truth, but he can be it.

Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much.

There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady’s head-dress.

Everyone looks at your watch and it represents who you are, your values and your personal style.

Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them.

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

People make jokes about my bosoms, why don’t they look underneath the breasts at the heart? It’s obvious I’ve got big ones and if people want to assume they’re not mine, then let them.

The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.

Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.

I still wanna rap better than everybody else, and I wanna say important things.

By a lie, a man… annihilates his dignity as a man.

I only see clearly what I remember.

It’s true that obscenity is a matter of taste and in the eye of the beholder.

It’s an awful feeling to write something that you feel is really important… and to feel that you’re being published by people who really don’t get it and/or don’t really care.

Considering their impact, you might expect mosquitoes to get more attention than they do. Sharks kill fewer than a dozen people every year, and in the U.S. they get a week dedicated to them on TV every year.

People always say when they meet me that I’m not what they expect. I assume they think I’m this super dark and depressing guy, but I like to channel all of those emotions into my work.

In memory everything seems to happen to music.

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.