Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

If… many influential people have failed to understand, or have just forgotten, what we were up against in the Cold War and how we overcame it, they are not going to be capable of securing, let alone enlarging, the gains that liberty has made.

Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.

There’s no one thing that is true. They’re all true.

Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.

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

From my standpoint, being an artist, I want to see what the new construction is between artist and audience.

If anything, we should feel sorry for the people who want us to feel bad about ourselves, because they are the ones struggling for approval. In middle school, bullies tortured other kids because they thought it would make people like them more.

Meditation demands an astonishingly alert mind; it is the understanding of the totality of life in which every form of fragmentation has ceased.

Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.

Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child’s eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below.

You know, people talk about this being an uncertain time. You know, all time is uncertain. I mean, it was uncertain back in – in 2007, we just didn’t know it was uncertain. It was – uncertain on September 10th, 2001. It was uncertain on October 18th, 1987, you just didn’t know it.

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

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.

Both old and young alike ought to seek wisdom: the former in order that, as age comes over him, he may be young in good things because of the grace of what has been, and the latter in order that, while he is young, he may at the same time be old, because he has no fear of the things which are to come.

Information is not knowledge.

I once did a three-hour interview with Radio Oxford only to be told the microphone hadn’t picked me up.

People don’t realize that we, we meaning people in show business, have the same problems as everyone else. Money doesn’t change that. Fame doesn’t change that. Sometimes that brings on more problems. You know, it’s just a different kind of problems.

I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?

To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.

It is easy enough to be friendly to one’s friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.

Two things control men’s nature, instinct and experience.

Modern travelling is not travelling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel.

He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.

I don’t think it’s possible to have a sense of tragedy without having a sense of humor.

I don’t have a problem with Hulk Hogan. People say things and do things, and who am I to judge?

Now I am older, I understand we have to accept who we are.

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.

What’s important for my daughter to know is that… if you are fortunate to have opportunity, it is your duty to make sure other people have those opportunities as well.

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

In those days he was wiser than he is now; he used to frequently take my advice.

I have a hard time figuring out what kind of box to put me in, too, because I don’t know exactly what’s going on around me or why. But I need to stay outside of boxes because then I can look at what’s inside of them without being part of them.

Go not to the Elves for counsel, for they will say both no and yes.

The youth need to be enabled to become job generators from job seekers.

It is always a strain when people are being killed. I don’t think anybody has held this job who hasn’t felt personally responsible for those being killed.

Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

There’s plenty about God that I don’t understand and can’t explain. But I come back to my core belief that God is good, that He’s for us.

Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

I think perhaps the most important problem is that we are trying to understand the fundamental workings of the universe via a language devised for telling one another when the best fruit is.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it’s not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

Comedy just pokes at problems, rarely confronts them squarely. Drama is like a plate of meat and potatoes, comedy is rather the dessert, a bit like meringue.

From my perspective, I absolutely believe in a greater spiritual power, far greater than I am, from which I have derived strength in moments of sadness or fear. That’s what I believe, and it was very, very strong in the forest.

I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me ‚understand‘ something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.

Is the babe young? When I behold it, it seems more venerable than the oldest man.

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

Strength and compassion are not mutually exclusive.

People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?

Age merely shows what children we remain.

A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding.

Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.

A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.

He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.

The left paw has done me well over the years. I’m not a scientist, I’m a martial artist.

It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.

History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.