It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else – means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.

To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.

Philosophy is the highest music.

Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.

Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries.

A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author’s soul.

A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.

Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God’s side, for God is always right.

Don’t swap horses in crossing a stream.

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

The Iranian government is undoubtedly a severe danger to its own population, but not beyond that.

There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.

I’ve always felt that if I examine myself too much, I’ll find out what I know and don’t know, and I’ll burst the bubble. I’ve gotten so lucky relying on my animal instincts, I’d rather keep a little bit of the animal alive.

We can’t just choose to tell some facts and not others because we don’t want to upset people. We have to tell it like it is.

No one can pass through life, any more than he can pass through a bit of country, without leaving tracks behind, and those tracks may often be helpful to those coming after him in finding their way.

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know – and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.

When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.

To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.

Ultimately, I’m not doing that much. I’m only doing what a human being who feels wants to do – in my way, without stepping out of my flow, while staying in my lane. Without, I guess, boring people.

Showing off is the fool’s idea of glory.

It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.

Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.

In politics stupidity is not a handicap.

We’re in greater danger today than we were the day after Pearl Harbor. Our military is absolutely incapable of defending this country.

It’s very important for Christians to be honest with God, which often, you know, God is much more interested in who you are than who you want to be.

For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

Convictions, in the end, they can be dangerous, but a world without them is just kind of an awful kind of gray, amorphous mass.

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.

I used to read five psalms every day – that teaches me how to get along with God. Then I read a chapter of Proverbs every day and that teaches me how to get along with my fellow man.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

Beauty and femininity are ageless and can’t be contrived, and glamour, although the manufacturers won’t like this, cannot be manufactured. Not real glamour; it’s based on femininity.

Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.

Whether I’m running on the beach without my shirt or whether I’m going out with my kids or going to church or going out to dinner – I don’t choose to insulate myself in engaging in real life. Hence, the public kind of almost knows me as much through my real life that they see through the rag mags.

I’ll never tell a lie. I’ll never make a misleading statement. I’ll never betray the confidence that any of you had in me. And I’ll never avoid a controversial issue.

They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.

If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.

It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.

We’re all insecure, aren’t we? I’m not walking around like I’m macho man or anything.

Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter’s honor.

A lie cannot live.

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

I’ve never been shy or secretive with the fact that if you walk into my life, you may be walking onto a record.

Once you’ve changed who you are or who you’ve portrayed in your music, the fans, they’ll catch it… Once I feel like the world knows me for anything else but my music, then I feel like I failed.

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

If danger arises in the present moment, there may be an emotion. There may even be pain. But that’s a challenge, not a problem. For a problem to exist, you need time and repetitive mind activity.

I’m not trying to be fashionable. Never was!

Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect – in terror.

Sincere Christians can disagree about the details of Scripture and theology – absolutely.

If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.

I’m not frightened of appearing vulnerable.

There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.

I want to be a man who is truthful and who won’t let pride get in the way of my ripping myself open to my partner and saying, ‚Here I am. This is me.‘ I feel there’s something powerful when a man reaches a point in his life when he can be completely vulnerable.

Peace if possible, truth at all costs.

I write my own songs. I made my own videos. I pick my producers. Nothing goes out without my permission. It’s all authentic.

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.