No accurate thinker will judge another person by that which the other person’s enemies say about him.

People always say when they meet me that I’m not what they expect. I assume they think I’m this super dark and depressing guy, but I like to channel all of those emotions into my work.

People often think I’m a faker, but I’m usually honest, in a certain way – in such a way that often nobody believes me!

Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it?

Don’t wait for the last judgment – it takes place every day.

A man’s only as old as the woman he feels.

In whatever adulation you get, there’s truth and there’s not truth. And wherever they dog you, and they say it was horrible – there’s truth and there’s not truth. It’s human nature to like to read the adulation more.

I get to hear the really good or the really bad things in the press, but I don’t read it. I can afford to say that because public opinion does not drive U2’s audience.

Fiction is like a spider’s web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.

I know black people love the idea that we finally have a beautiful, good-looking black president. But if he is doing awful things to us, we should wake up.

Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.

The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.

The South is very beautiful but its beauty makes one sad because the lives that people live here, and have lived here, are so ugly.

There is no body of theory or significant body of relevant information, beyond the comprehension of the layman, which makes policy immune from criticism.

If one plays good music, people don’t listen and if one plays bad music people don’t talk.

And, honestly, if somebody wants to criticize me for not being a trainwreck, that’s fine with me!

My aim is to make the poor look rich and the rich look poor.

But to me nothing – the negative, the empty – is exceedingly powerful.

Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?

The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.

Not always actions show the man; we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind.

There’s no way to remove the observer – us – from our perceptions of the world.

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.

Regardless of what society says, we can’t go on much longer in the sea of immorality without judgment coming.

The last person I have ever criticized is an official. They have a tough job to do. Things are happening so quick.

For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.

Is it weird in here, or is it just me?

A lot of people think I’m a comedian.

Heathenism is a state of mind. You can take it that I’m referring to one who does not see his world. He has no mental light. He destroys almost unwittingly. He cannot feel any Gods presence in his life. He is the 21st century man.

Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.

I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Most people wouldn’t know music if it came up and bit them on the ass.

If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today.

The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all.

If God dropped acid, would he see people?

It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.

The roaring thunder of the law and the fear of the terror of judgment are both used to bring us to Christ, but the final victory culminating in our salvation is won through God’s loving-kindness.

I’ll be judged on the body of work and not the popularity of any one decision.

Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.

Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.

Some people feel affronted when something they thought to be true doesn’t happen. If that’s the case, then your sense of risk is much higher, and that leads to risk aversion. You need to be able to be comfortable in uncertainty.

I think the 24-hour news cycle has helped exaggerate the differences between the parties. You can always find someone on TV somewhere carping about something. That didn’t happen 20 years ago.

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.

If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.

It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.

I like criticism. It makes you strong.

Men willingly believe what they wish.

I try to teach through my opinions, through my speeches, how wrong it is to judge people on the basis of what they look like, color of their skin, whether they’re men or women.

The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.

This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room.

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve.

If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.

We’re all caught up in circumstances, and we’re all good and evil. When you’re really hungry, for instance, you’ll do anything to survive. I think the most evil thing – well, maybe that’s too strong – but certainly a very evil thing is judgment, the sin of ignorance.

Let a man get up and say, Behold, this is the truth, and instantly I perceive a sandy cat filching a piece of fish in the background. Look, you have forgotten the cat, I say.

The eye sees what it brings the power to see.

So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.

The truth may be out there, but lies are inside your head.

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

Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.