A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.

If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.

So thoroughly and sincerely are we compelled to live, reverencing our life, and denying the possibility of change. This is the only way, we say; but there are as many ways as there can be drawn radii from one centre. All change is a miracle to contemplate; but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant.

Isn’t it funny how babies laugh a lot? I read a toddler, a young child laughs 300 times a day. The average adult laughs, like, four times a day. God put it in them. He put the laugh in us, but I think sometimes we let life get us down, you know, have bad breaks, and we lose our breaks.

People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.

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

The child inside of you knows how to take things as they come, how to deal most effectively and happily with everything and everyone it encounters on this planet. If you can recapture that childlike essence of your being, you can stay ‚forever young at heart.‘

You know, people talk about this being an uncertain time. You know, all time is uncertain. I mean, it was uncertain back in – in 2007, we just didn’t know it was uncertain. It was – uncertain on September 10th, 2001. It was uncertain on October 18th, 1987, you just didn’t know it.

You are the universe, you aren’t in the universe.

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

The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person.

There is so much that people take for granted.

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.

There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.

I don’t know if I particularly want to be remembered for anything. I personally do not think I’m a great gift to the world. I’ve been very fortunate.

If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.

I’d rather be optimistic and wrong than pessimistic and right.

How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean.

Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.

I never think about myself as an artist working in this time. I think about it in macro.

Life is a series of commas, not periods.

Everything is funny, as long as it’s happening to somebody else.

In my entire life, any time I’ve ever lost something, I’ve gotten something even better going around the next corner. It’s like one door closes and another door opens. As long as I can walk through the produce section in every grocery store in this country and eat the grapes that they’re going to throw away, I know I can be fine.

Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return.

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

The idea is to try to give all the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgment in one particular direction or another.

People only see what they are prepared to see.

Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you’re a thousand miles from the corn field.

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

I have nothing to ask but that you would remove to the other side, that you may not, by intercepting the sunshine, take from me what you cannot give.

Each man is always in the middle of the surface of the earth and under the zenith of his own hemisphere, and over the centre of the earth.

When you have kids, you see life through different eyes. You feel love more deeply and are maybe a little more compassionate. It’s inevitable that that would make its way into your songwriting.

Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.

Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial ‚we.‘

Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.

All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.

Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion.

You can’t have a rigid view that all new taxes are evil.

I have been influenced in my thinking by both west and east.

Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. If it goes past the centre of gravity on one side, it must go a like distance on the other; and it is only after a certain time that it finds the true point at which it can remain at rest.

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

The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.

Success and failure are equally disastrous.

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.

I’m more of a realist when it comes to life, and I’d much rather my mother be in a spiritual place in Heaven than in a bed, sick, fighting for her life.

The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.

Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.

If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.

For me, there are two types of people: the young and the experienced.

I think the idea of art kills creativity.

To some extent I liken slavery to death.

In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure; in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it is excessively discussed.

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute.