It’s no accident many accuse me of conducting public affairs with my heart instead of my head. Well, what if I do? Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart don’t know how to laugh either.

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

There are people who want to make men’s lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life; their Christianity, for instance.

The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one’s key to the experience of others.

If you’re in trouble, or hurt or need – go to the poor people. They’re the only ones that’ll help – the only ones.

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.

It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.

I’m a people pleaser. I hold a lot of things in. I’m always making sure everybody is okay. I usually don’t rage; I usually don’t curse.

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

You start to become successful, and everybody starts to drive your money train to the bank, and they’re not thinking anymore about what you want as an artist or if any of that even matters to you. It genuinely upsets people in my life that I don’t care about money, and that’s not my problem.

It could be if I fight in front of one person or one million people. It’s still the same emotions.

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them.

Anybody with a sense of humor is going to put on my album and laugh from beginning to end.

The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it – basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them.

My life is real.

Don’t throw stones at your neighbors if your own windows are glass.

I feel like the reason people feel like they know me is because I’m giving you myself in the music. There’s where the connection comes from; you can’t Twitter that.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.

Technology is unlocking the innate compassion we have for our fellow human beings.

I think if you follow anyone home, whether they live in Houston or London, and you sit at their dinner table and talk to them about their mother who has cancer or their child who is struggling in school, and their fears about watching their lives go by, I think we’re all the same.

I say what I want to say and do what I want to do. There’s no in between. People will either love you for it or hate you for it.

Sometimes we be playing the politics too much and forget who we are just to win.

I felt I had to solve everyone’s problems.

Secretly we’re all a little more absurd than we make ourselves out to be.

If you change and adapt your persona, you are seen as inauthentic; if you stay the angry young man, you fade from attention or seem tiresome.

Be nice to whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.

Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors.

The secret to humor is surprise.

You know, one race will not be a survivor if the other one dies, and that’s something that we should think about.

Against the assault of laughter, nothing can stand.

I always felt that if I was going to do a movie, I wanted it to be authentic.

We don’t get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like.

If you would judge, understand.

See things from the boy’s point of view.

When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.

I didn’t come to Hollywood. Hollywood came to me. A lot of people wish they could say the things I say. Everyone out here is so phony, it’s sickening.

What really raises one’s indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering.

It’s hard for me to grasp the concept of somebody being nervous when I’m talking to them.

I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made.

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.

I like to be myself, and I don’t pretend. For instance, I don’t dress up for occasions; I am what I am.

He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

If we’re really honest with ourselves, most of us will admit that we want to impress people, and this is what’s causing us to do what we do.

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.

To add value to others, one must first value others.

The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.

I’m not going to make a song just to make a song. The day that I make an album, it’s so that people really know what Bad Bunny’s about.

When you have nothing important or interesting to say, don’t let anyone persuade you to say it.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground.

The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.

I feel lucky that I can have people laugh solidly for a whole hour by just saying what I think and getting paid for it.

We don’t laugh because we’re happy – we’re happy because we laugh.

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next door neighbor?

The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc.

Creativity has got to start with humanity and when you’re a human being, you feel, you suffer. You’re gay, you’re sick, you’re nervous or whatever.

You pity the fool because you don’t want to beat up a fool! You know, pity is between sorry and mercy. See, if you pity him, you know, you won’t have to beat him up. So that’s why I say fools, you gotta give another chance because they don’t know no better. That’s why I pity them!

There is more to sex appeal than just measurements. I don’t need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex appeal, picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain.

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.