A lot of people don’t like the road, but it’s as natural to me as breathing.

My musical taste and image is going to change naturally. It’s not forced; I do what comes natural to me. Sometimes, I like to be dark… other times, I like to be really light and ladylike.

Is the babe young? When I behold it, it seems more venerable than the oldest man.

I don’t like celebrities; I don’t hang out with them; I don’t relate to that life.

It’s useful to go out of this world and see it from the perspective of another one.

As human beings, we are all not conducting just one narrative but many narratives all at the same time.

I’m never a reliable narrator, unbiased or objective.

If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying.

I don’t concern myself with award. I’d been to the party enough times to know it really didn’t matter.

A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.

Do not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees are cut down while crooked ones are left standing.

I’m an idealist without illusions.

To love someone means to see him as God intended him.

Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.

His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly’s wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred.

I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?

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

People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.

All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.

In praise there is more obtrusiveness than in blame.

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there’s a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.

My life is the road, man. I need to keep moving.

Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.

What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

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

Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.

It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn’t feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.

Who is richer? The man who is seen, but cannot see? Or the man who is not being seen, but can see?

Life would pall if it were all sugar; salt is bitter if taken by itself; but when tasted as part of the dish, it savours the meat. Difficulties are the salt of life.

Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.

I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth.

I had a much better view with the halo than I expected.

Not everyone can see the truth, but he can be it.

Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.

When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.

Now, you lose something in your life, or you come into a conflict, and there’s gonna come a time that you’re gonna know: There was a reason for that. And at the end of your life, all the things you thought were periods, they turn out to be commas. There was never a full stop in any of it.

I think that sexuality is only attractive when it’s natural and spontaneous.

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.

As you get older, time speeds up but life slows down.

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

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.

Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.

It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?

The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.

Anybody can be specific and obvious. That’s always been the easy way. It’s not that it’s so difficult to be unspecific and less obvious; it’s just that there’s nothing, absolutely nothing, to be specific and obvious about.

Except for the young or very happy, I can’t say I am sorry for anyone who dies.

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.

Life is our dictionary.

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

The frontier between hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.

To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn’t everything.

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.

Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.

Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.

Life is so, so short. Bible says it’s like a vapor.

We live in ugly times.

Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.

Say not, ‚I have found the truth,‘ but rather, ‚I have found a truth.‘