Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!

We moralize among ruins.

Independence is a heady draught, and if you drink it in your youth, it can have the same effect on the brain as young wine does. It does not matter that its taste is not always appealing. It is addictive and with each drink you want more.

The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.

These words dropped into my childish mind as if you should accidentally drop a ring into a deep well. I did not think of them much at the time, but there came a day in my life when the ring was fished up out of the well, good as new.

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.

Last year we said, ‚Things can’t go on like this‘, and they didn’t, they got worse.

Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.

When I prepare, I am not messing around. I find the right places, the right people, and the right environment. Iceland is one of those places.

There are so many memories for me in Manchester. Everywhere I go, I think, ‚I used to have boutiques here, clubs there, restaurants in that area.‘

The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.

When I was a kid, I went to the store and asked the guy, Do you have any toy train schedules?

Fuel prices are at the center of our lives. They affect our ability to travel, stay warm, and feed ourselves.

It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.

The more you stay in this kind of job, the more you realize that a public figure, a major public figure, is a lonely man.

A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.

Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.

In my youth, I traveled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

Childhood was very nice. The only thing wrong was that I was so introverted, everything became a big deal… ‚Oh, no, here comes the bus. Where am I gonna sit on the bus?‘

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.

You cannot step into the same river twice.

I’m not afraid to look like a big, hairy, smelly, foreign devil in Tokyo, though I do my best not to, I really do.

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

On the way back from Mumbai to go meet with President Xi in China, I stopped in Singapore to meet with a guy named Lee Kuan Yew, who most foreign policy experts around the world say is the wisest man in the Orient.

The Make in India campaign has taken off and is backed with skill development. It is going to open new vistas for employment for the youth.

We have lived long enough to experience the hollowness of earth and the rottenness of all carnal promises.

I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.

Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.

Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.

I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men.

I never went to school more than six months in my life, but I can say this: that among my earliest recollections, I remember how, when a mere child, I used to get irritated when anybody talked to me in a way I could not understand.

I can’t stress to you enough how much I can relate to teens being cyberbullied. Something that helps me is looking at old videos of me and my friends from middle school, or videos of my family. I love watching funny videos of my favorite people – it really cheers me up.

My mama never wore a pair of pants when I was growing up, and now that’s all she wears. It was so funny for me when I first started seeing Mama wear pants. It was like it wasn’t Mama. Now I’ve bought her many a pantsuit because she just lives in them.

Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.

The things hardest to bear are sweetest to remember.

Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.

I still consider myself a little, fat kid from Hawaii.

I love making people laugh. And I love laughing.

I remember how my mother would bring us to chapel on Sundays… and my father used to wait outside. One of the things that I picked up from my father and my mother was the sense that religion often gets in the way of God. For me, at least, it got in the way.

One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.

A president has an inescapable responsibility to provide direction: What are we trying to achieve? What are we trying to prevent? Why? To do that, he has to both analyze and reflect.

I once went on the most grueling radio tour. Living in hotel rooms, sleeping in the backs of rental cars as my mom drove to three different cities in one day.

I think we’ve taken the meaning of Christmas out. People don’t stop and think about Jesus or the birth of Jesus. When they think of Christmas, they think of Santa Claus and – for the children, and they think of giving gifts and out-giving the next person of spending their time looking for the right thing for somebody who has everything.

Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason.

I never write about the road. I never write about hotels or anything like that.

It’s amazing if you just listen to people. They tell you all the time things that you can do for them, without even realizing what they’re doing. I’ve learned to take notice of those things and if it’s something that I feel God wants me to do, then I try to do that to add joy to their life.

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.

I love traveling all over the world; but it’s true: there’s nothing like home.

We were on for six years. We were in syndication for a while. It had its run. I still see the people from ‚Mr. Belvedere,‘ too. We stay in touch.

Just as the humble, unassuming, assenting ‚O.K.‘ has deposed the more affirmative ‚Yes,‘ so the little cringe and hesitation and approximation of ‚like‘ are a help to young people who are struggling to negotiate the shoals and rapids of ethnic identity, the street, and general correctness.

I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.

The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.

Being on tour is like being in limbo. It’s like going from nowhere to nowhere.

Life is the childhood of our immortality.

When I look back on my life as a whole, it is impossible for me not to feel blessed.

I always loved that old song ‚Banks of the Ohio‘ – it was always such a man’s song, so I’ve always wanted to record it.

It’s always great to perform at home in the good ol‘ U.S.A.

I grew up listening to the Police, I grew up performing in bars, singing Police songs.

I’m never in the same place for more than, like, three days at a time. Things can change from one minute to the next.

It’s not a real adventure when you have to pay for it.