It’s presumptuous to say you know how somebody feels.

Oh, I’ve always been very… Emotional. ‚Hypersensitive‘ is what they call it, I think.

Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood – never.

Our experience of any painting is always the latest line in a long conversation we’ve been having with painting. There’s no way of looking at art as though you hadn’t seen art before.

Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.

Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.

I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.

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.

The best leaders understand the motivations of their team members and know their people – their lives and their families. But a leader must never grow so close to subordinates that one member of the team becomes more important than another, or more important than the mission itself.

I try to speak plainly so that my constituents who don’t follow the nuances of government like I do, because they’re too busy earning a real living, can understand the issues before me. None of this stuff is brain surgery.

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.

Except for the young or very happy, I can’t say I am sorry for anyone who dies.

Mediocre theoretical physicists make no progress. They spend all their time understanding other people’s progress.

I liked his ability to deal with a lot of the negativity that surrounded him. Even though he was in a world that he didn’t want to be in, he still saw the bigger picture.

I wish every American had an opportunity to sit down, to go to a base, to meet with families, to meet with service members, to sit down with our veterans – because we would think differently about our challenges as individuals.

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

In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure; in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it is excessively discussed.

It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.

This is a wonderful planet, and it is being completely destroyed by people who have too much money and power and no empathy.

Who is richer? The man who is seen, but cannot see? Or the man who is not being seen, but can see?

I’m astounded by people who want to ‚know‘ the universe when it’s hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.

Do everything as in the eye of another.

Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.

The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.

That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity’s small change in general society.

No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

Each one of them is Jesus in disguise.

There really is no difference between the bully and the victim.

Some people take defeat and losses a certain way. You see how some fighters take losses.

For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.

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

The common question that gets asked in business is, ‚why?‘ That’s a good question, but an equally valid question is, ‚why not?‘

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn’t touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.

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.

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.

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.

You can’t have it all all at once. Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all, but in given periods in time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.

I think ‚Dirty Harry‘ was probably sensitive toward the victims of violent crime.

I didn’t die young. So I am very lucky. There are other artists and people that didn’t survive certain things… people can imagine that I did the most dangerous, and I did the worst… for many reasons, I shouldn’t be here.

Meditation is to get insight, to get understanding and compassion, and when you have them, you are compelled to act.

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.

There is love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look.

Isn’t it funny how babies laugh a lot? I read a toddler, a young child laughs 300 times a day. The average adult laughs, like, four times a day. God put it in them. He put the laugh in us, but I think sometimes we let life get us down, you know, have bad breaks, and we lose our breaks.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.

Many people look at me and think they know me but they don’t at all. This is the real me. I am a humble person, a feeling person. A person who cares about others, who wants to help others.

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

There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.

Most damage that others do us is out of fear, humiliation and pain. Those feelings occur in all of us, not just in those of us who profess a certain religious or racial devotion.

I have been influenced in my thinking by both west and east.

Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards – the things we live by and teach our children – are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.

Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

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

Life is our dictionary.

Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the letters in which it is composed.

I like gaps; all my stories have gaps. It seems this is the way people’s lives present themselves.

Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.

If you think nobody cares about you, try missing a couple of payments.