I mean, if you didn’t get it or if you didn’t feel like you enjoyed it, sometimes that experience can change.

The drama and the trauma of the relationship you have when you’re 16 can mirror the one you have when you’re 26. Life repeats itself.

Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world.

What people see on court is another side of me; it’s not me.

Do everything as in the eye of another.

Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.

I would go to the deeps a hundred times to cheer a downcast spirit. It is good for me to have been afflicted, that I might know how to speak a word in season to one that is weary.

Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

Through every victory and every setback, I’ve insisted that change is never easy and never quick; that we wouldn’t meet all of our challenges in one term, or one presidency, or even in one lifetime.

A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority.

Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him.

When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.

The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.

The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.

What goes on inside a star is better understood than one might guess from the difficulty of having to look at a little dot of light through a telescope, because we can calculate what the atoms in the stars should do in most circumstances.

Many people find the universe confusing – it’s not.

I think Mick Jagger would be astounded and amazed if he realized that to many people he is not a sex symbol, but a mother image.

A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.

I agree with people like Richard Dawkins that mankind felt the need for creation myths. Before we really began to understand disease and the weather and things like that, we sought false explanations for them. Now science has filled in some of the realm – not all – that religion used to fill.

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.

Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.

My experience with power, you can maintain it, or you get it taken from you. You get you some newfound power and go crazy, and it get taken from you quick.

My experience in Amsterdam is that cyclists ride where the hell they like and aim in a state of rage at all pedestrians while ringing their bell loudly, the concept of avoiding people being foreign to them.

The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.

It is impossible to experience one’s death objectively and still carry a tune.

For me, the world that I inhabit in reality is probably a very different world than the one people expect that I would be in.

To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia – to mistake an ordinary young woman for a goddess.

From the FA to UEFA and FIFA, there’s a naivety, a lack of knowledge and understanding and packed with people who are out of touch.

Understand: any phenomenon in the world is by nature complex. The people you deal with are equally complex. Any action sets off a limitless chain of reactions. It is never so simple as A leads to B. B will lead to C, D and beyond.

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it’s dead for you.

I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.

High office teaches decision making, not substance. It consumes intellectual capital; it does not create it. Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered; they learn how to make decisions but not what decisions to make.

Vanity is but the surface.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.

Life must be lived as play.

The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Whoever will be born must destroy a world.

I have to be seen to be believed.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.

Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.

Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves.

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.

Proselytism is solemn nonsense; it makes no sense. We need to get to know each other, listen to each other and improve our knowledge of the world around us.

Getting in and out of the car with the halo takes a bit of experience. I struggled initially, but after a few trial runs I was fine.

The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws of health or of nursing, for they are in reality the same, obtain among the well as among the sick.

I think that people are tired. They’re tired of the same old kind of politics. People want a new tone to politics.

Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.

Experience teaches only the teachable.

People gonna be they own individuals and have they own worlds and I can’t knock it.

I trust my taste. I trust it completely and I always have done, and I’ve always thought it isn’t that different from everybody else’s.

The second time around, I’ll understand that, as a husband, my wife doesn’t care about my opinions. I just need to tell her the things that will continue to help me stack the brownie points.