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

Nothing endures but change.

Everybody has their thing they like or don’t like to see. It’s all in your head. That’s why people take their own pictures, because it’s difficult for someone else to capture what you seek.

One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.

Of all the senses, sight must be the most delightful.

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

They say somebody’s ‚street smart.‘ I feel like, if I got intelligence, it’s just a country smart.

When you go to war as a boy, you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed, not you… Then, when you are badly wounded the first time, you lose that illusion, and you know it can happen to you.

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.

Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future.

The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.

I feel confident imposing change on myself. It’s a lot more fun progressing than looking back. That’s why I need to throw curve balls.

The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.

In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

We’re not trying to make you less of a man. We just want you to love us as deeply and as wholesomely and as fully as we love you.

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve.

We need somebody who’s got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it’s like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it’s like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old – and that’s the criterion by which I’ll be selecting my judges.

You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing.

I’m fascinated by the fact that we can’t grasp anything about time.

I confused things with their names: that is belief.

If you’re in business or politics, you need to have an intense understanding of what’s going on around you.

I do believe that in order to be a successful negotiator that as a diplomat, you have to be able to put yourself into the other person’s shoes. Unless you can understand what is motivating them, you are never going to be able to figure out how to solve a particular problem.

Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.

I’ve never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a ‚fat cat‘ and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a ‚public-spirited philanthropist‘.

At first when I heard about climate change, I was a climate denier. I didn’t think it was happening. Because if there really was an existential crisis like that, that would threaten our civilisation, we wouldn’t be focusing on anything else. That would be our first priority. So I didn’t understand how that added up.

Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.

Human self-understanding changes with time, and so also human consciousness deepens.

A man has a tendency to accept you the way you are, while most women immediately start to pick flaws and want to change you.

Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.

To understand Europe, you have to be a genius – or French.

The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.

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

In my experience, many people confuse being cowardly with being nice.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?

I don’t get bored.

Power does not change you, it unmasks you.

I don’t think any country is perfect. It’s our responsibility to do the best we can do to change the things we don’t like. I think that’s part of social responsibility, and everybody is going to do that in their own way.

My age is very insignificant to me. I don’t think about it, but the world does. The world likes young people in general.

We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds.

Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.

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

I believe everyone should have a broad picture of how the universe operates and our place in it. It is a basic human desire. And it also puts our worries in perspective.

There may not be one Truth – there may be several truths – but saying that is not to say that reality doesn’t exist.

The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.

And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high.

You can tell the tree by the fruit it bears. You see it through what the organization is delivering as far as a concrete program. If the tree’s fruit sours or grows brackish, then the time has come to chop it down – bury it and walk over it and plant new seeds.

You cannot step into the same river twice.

The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.

I don’t hate women – they just sometimes make me mad.

I like the way the stories of my relationships sound to music more than the way they look in print, in gossip columns or in me talking about them in interviews. I think it’s a better way of telling the stories.

You hear about actors being late and all that sort of stuff, but you never find that with an actor who’s directed, because an actor who’s directed understands all the problems your production is going through.

The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.

All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.

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.

You don’t have the same mentality as you did five years ago – even one year. People are always changing, and I believe that everyone deserves the space to change and for people to recognize their change.

We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.