The only passion that guides me is for the truth… I look at everything from this point of view.

It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are… than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.

Ultimately, a real understanding of history means that we face nothing new under the sun.

It all went wrong with football, the thing I loved most of all, and from there, my life slowly fell apart.

It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.

After many years of great mercy, after tasting of the powers of the world to come, we still are so weak, so foolish; but, oh! when we get away from self to God, there all is truth and purity and holiness, and our heart finds peace, wisdom, completeness, delight, joy, victory.

If you are lucky enough to find something that you love, and you have a shot at being good at it, don’t stop, don’t put it down.

Don’t be afraid to see what you see.

A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.

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

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.

To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.

No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.

I love movement. I love moshing.

We see the world not as it is, but as we are.

Let me define a leader. He must have vision and passion and not be afraid of any problem. Instead, he should know how to defeat it. Most importantly, he must work with integrity.

I never think about myself as an artist working in this time. I think about it in macro.

Where would I be without baseball? Who am I without baseball?

It’s passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.

He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.

My justification is that most people my age spend a lot of time thinking about what they’re going to do for the next five or ten years. The time they spend thinking about their life, I just spend drinking.

Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.

So when these people sell out, even though they get fabulously rich, they’re gypping themselves out of one of the potentially most rewarding experiences of their unfolding lives. Without it, they may never know their values or how to keep their newfound wealth in perspective.

Sometimes I’ve called writing a disease. If so, I’m glad that it caught me.

Love is only one of many passions.

On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.

Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.

Say not, ‚I have found the truth,‘ but rather, ‚I have found a truth.‘

It’s possible – you can never know – that the universe exists only for me. If so, it’s sure going well for me, I must admit.

I like being able to be on the inside of music, rather than on the outside listening to it.

Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.

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

The object of the superior man is truth.

In my entire life, any time I’ve ever lost something, I’ve gotten something even better going around the next corner. It’s like one door closes and another door opens. As long as I can walk through the produce section in every grocery store in this country and eat the grapes that they’re going to throw away, I know I can be fine.

Nothing fortifies scepticism more than the fact that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong.

I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect.

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

We are anthill men upon an anthill world.

Alternative R&B is in my soul. It’s not going anywhere.

A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.

It put our energies to sleep and made visionaries of us – dreamers and indolent… It is good to begin life poor; it is good to begin life rich – these are wholesome; but to begin it prospectively rich! The man who has not experienced it cannot imagine the curse of it.

As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.

Truth is weirder than any fiction I’ve seen.

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

The people you choose to have around you make all the difference. My family and close friends keep me grounded. You have to have a mind of your own and a strong head on your shoulders. Cricket is the most important thing to me, so the rest of it pales in comparison.

I would say that jazz is my own language.

Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

If there is one thing I fear less than everything else, it is, I believe, persecution for my opinions. There are a good many points about which I may be diffident, but when it comes to questions of Truth and intellectual independence, there is no holding me – I can envisage no finer end than to sacrifice oneself for a conviction.

No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.

The truth is lived, not taught.

Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.

When I look at acting careers that I really admire, I see that it’s been a precise decision-making process for these people. They make decisions based on what they love, and they do only the things that they are passionate about. They play only characters that they can’t stop thinking about.

I wanted very much to learn to draw, for a reason that I kept to myself: I wanted to convey an emotion I have about the beauty of the world.

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.

I think carrying moral baggage is very dangerous for an artist. If you have a duty, it’s to be true and not cover up the cracks.

My father probably thought the capital of the world was wherever he was at the time. It couldn’t possibly be anyplace else. Where he and his wife were in their own home, that, for them, was the capital of the world.

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

I guess you could say it’s always been my destiny to be a performer.

I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.