A fool is wise in his eyes.

Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.

It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.

Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.

In this big ball of people, I’m just one grain of sand on this beach.

There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.

There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.

And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.

A lot of people in our industry haven’t had very diverse experiences. So they don’t have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one’s understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.

People should make up their own mind about what they think of me.

Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.

Few people have the imagination for reality.

I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.

Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you’re going to live your life.

Measure your wealth by what you’d have left if you lost all your money.

Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.

Step with care and great tact, and remember that Life’s a Great Balancing Act.

There is something curiously boring about somebody else’s happiness.

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.

Change alone is unchanging.

In terms of doing work and in terms of learning and evolving as a person, you just grow more when you get more people’s perspectives… I really try and live the mission of the company and… keep everything else in my life extremely simple.

How do you know what it’s like to be stupid if you’ve never been smart?

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

My old drama coach used to say, ‚Don’t just do something, stand there.‘ Gary Cooper wasn’t afraid to do nothing.

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.

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

I think that all things, in their way, reflect heavenly truth, the imagination not least.

Our experience of any painting is always the latest line in a long conversation we’ve been having with painting. There’s no way of looking at art as though you hadn’t seen art before.

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.

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.

Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.

Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.

The foolish man conceives the idea of ‚self.‘ The wise man sees there is no ground on which to build the idea of ‚self;‘ thus, he has a right conception of the world and well concludes that all compounds amassed by sorrow will be dissolved again, but the truth will remain.

It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.

I don’t look at myself as a commodity, but I’m sure a lot of people have.

So when these people sell out, even though they get fabulously rich, they’re gypping themselves out of one of the potentially most rewarding experiences of their unfolding lives. Without it, they may never know their values or how to keep their newfound wealth in perspective.

When I first went to places where people were suffering from war and persecution, I felt ashamed of my feelings of sadness. I could see more possibilities in my life.

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

When I write, it’s like choosing which shoes I’m going to put on. More often than not, my lyrics are personal – but I sometimes have to put myself in other people’s shoes.

Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey’s end.

I think I’ve committed the one really bad English crime, which is I’ve risen above my station. I was supposed to be a pop star, and suddenly I’m claiming that I’m an artist of some kind.

A wise woman wishes to be no one’s enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone’s victim.

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.

What’s the use of happiness? It can’t buy you money.

I’m considered wise, and sometimes I see myself as knowing. Most of the time, I see myself as wanting to know. And I see myself as a very interested person. I’ve never been bored in my life.

If you think nobody cares about you, try missing a couple of payments.

Jesters do often prove prophets.

Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.

The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.

It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Sometimes the majority just means all the fools are on the same side.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.

No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.

Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good.