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

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.

Is it not important to find out how to listen not only to what is being said but to everything – to the noise in the streets, to the chatter of birds, to the noise of the tramcar, to the restless sea, to the voice of your husband, to your wife, to your friends, to the cry of a baby?

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

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

Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies – or else? The chain reaction of evil – hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars – must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

There is no just and serene criticism as yet.

I always say the strength of democracy lies in criticism. If there is no criticism, that means there is no democracy. And if you want to grow, you must invite criticism. And I want to grow; I want to invite criticism.

The philosophical question before us is, when we make an observation of our track in the past, does the result of our observation become real in the same sense that the final state would be defined if an outside observer were to make the observation?

To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.

Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.

When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.

Sadat was a great and good man, and his most bitter and dangerous enemies were people who were obsessed with hatred for his peaceful goals.

Never explain – your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.

There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, he most illogically kicks up a row.

I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.

It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.

Things ain’t what they used to be and never were.

Reality simply consists of different points of view.

The mainstream is always under attack.

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.

The thing about delirium is you think it’s great, but it actually isn’t.

I confused things with their names: that is belief.

The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.

Everybody looks like clones and the only people you notice are my age. I don’t notice anybody unless they look great, and every now and again they do, and they are usually 70.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

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.

When I left Dortmund, I said it’s not important what people think when you come in but what they think when you leave.

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.

If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat.

The problem with Yanks is they are wimps.

I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.

In France there are, I think, less than one per cent of people who are too skinny.

My father probably thought the capital of the world was wherever he was at the time. It couldn’t possibly be anyplace else. Where he and his wife were in their own home, that, for them, was the capital of the world.

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.

A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.

Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other: given the upper, to find the under side.

What really matters is how God sees me. He isn’t concerned with labels; he is concerned about the state of man’s soul.

It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Some people mistakenly think nature is very nice and benevolent and never betrays.

There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

I just didn’t want to get out there anymore; I didn’t want to get back into what I call ‚the swamp.‘ And the other reason why is I don’t think it’s good for the presidency for a former president to be opining about his successor. President Obama’s got plenty of critics – and I’m just not gonna be one.

Criticism is prejudice made plausible.

Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.

I’m not concerned with people seeing me in a certain way. Some people see me as a kid, some people see me as an adult. But I’m seriously not going to complain how anybody sees me, as long as they see me.

If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.

I think the American people, with some justification, think that most politicians live in la-la land.

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

Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.

I don’t want people to think of me as sexy.

All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent.

All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.

Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?

Man’s enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain – and most fools do.

The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed.

What I think is fair to say is that, coming out of the Republican camp, there have been efforts to suggest that perhaps I’m not who I say I am when it comes to my faith – something which I find deeply offensive, and that has been going on for a pretty long time.

Most people have no idea what something would sound like if it wasn’t an MP3.