A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.

I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future.

If a person doesn’t change, there’s something really wrong with him.

People who pity themselves think, ‚Why would I try to do anything? I’ll just fail.‘

The belief that the world is getting worse, that we can’t solve extreme poverty and disease, isn’t just mistaken. It is harmful.

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

A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.

I had the classic 40 meltdown. I did. It’s embarrassing. It was pretty funny. But then I recovered. To me, it was like a second adolescence. Hormonally, my body was changing, my mind was changing, and so my relationship to myself and the world around me came to this assault of finiteness.

I will never retire unless I have to.

Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.

Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them.

There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end ofthe search for the ultimate laws of nature.

You’ll never rise any higher than the way you see yourself.

While some doubted that connecting the world was actually important, we were building. While others doubted that this would be sustainable, you were forming lasting connections. We just cared more about connecting the world than anyone else. And we still do today.

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

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

Each generation goes further than the generation preceding it because it stands on the shoulders of that generation. You will have opportunities beyond anything we’ve ever known.

I think I hate cynicism more than anything else. It’s the curse of our age, and I want to avoid it at all costs.

Doubt in my tradition is something that is very helpful. Because of doubt, you can thirst more and you will get a higher kind of proof.

Every collaboration helps you grow. With Bowie, it’s different every time. I know how to create settings, unusual aural environments. That inspires him. He’s very quick.

I was probably tall as a child, but I just stopped growing.

Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.

Every wall is a door.

A man’s felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.

Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

Everything’s fine today, that is our illusion.

The redwood is the glory of the Coast Range. It extends along the western slope, in a nearly continuous belt about ten miles wide, from beyond the Oregon boundary to the south of Santa Cruz, a distance of nearly four hundred miles, and in massive, sustained grandeur and closeness of growth surpasses all the other timber woods of the world.

Don’t get older just to get wiser. If you get older, you will be wiser, I believe that – if you dare. But get older because it’s fun!

One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

You can’t stop everything from happening. But we’ve gotten to a point where we’re certainly trying. If a car doesn’t have four hundred air bags in it, then it’s no good.

You can’t say civilization don’t advance… in every war they kill you in a new way.

Life is about growing and improving and getting better.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.

There are many victories worse than a defeat.

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.

Kids will remind you that, even though you’ve gone down a road 100 times, it’s brand new for them – and that’s healthy.

Instead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office. Instead of being concerned that you are not known, seek to be worthy of being known.

You can’t think; you just gotta do things.

I think so many people live their whole life in fear and doubt and shame.

Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.

Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.

I believe you have to be willing to be misunderstood if you’re going to innovate.

The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.

At twelve I looked like a girl of seventeen. My body was developed and shapely. I still wore the blue dress and the blouse the orphanage provided. They made me look like an overgrown lummox.

A great mind becomes a great fortune.

I think the positive competition between states in India is one of the most positive dynamics that the country has.

You want to play another kind of character in another genre, and it’s been something I’ve been trying to do if I can in the career so far, and it’s something I hope to continue because it’s interesting to me and you get to do different things as an actor.

You might not always get what you want, but you always get what you expect.

I don’t like typing messages on my phone. Some people get used to it.

I’m not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.

Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

You simply have to put one foot in front of the other and keep going. Put blinders on and plow right ahead.

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion.

Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.

A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known.

I prefer to praise people and the world rather than criticize them and it.

I didn’t get trained by the school system like other kids, and when I did concentrate on learning, my mind was cluttered and locked by the programming of the system.