A lot of people have it a lot worse than you do.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

The way up and the way down are one and the same.

I hate to see anybody sink. I hate to see anybody lose their dream, lose their home, something like that.

He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much.

The things I talk about and explain couldn’t happen – yet, they don’t seem impossible – you could say I talk about the world in an abstract perspective. But then, the world is basically insane – and it’s trying to pass itself off as being a sane place. I show it for what it is.

It’s hard to wrap my head around the fact that there are people who can’t or won’t see what Black Lives Matter is trying to accomplish.

For all the supporters of Tesla over the years, and it’s been several years now and there have been some very tough times, I’d just like to say thank you very much. I deeply appreciate the support, particularly through the darkest times.

So there’s no guarantee if you like the music you will empathize with the culture and the people who made it. It doesn’t necessarily happen. I think it can, but it doesn’t necessarily happen. Which is kind of a shame.

People want to feel hopeful.

Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.

We see the world not as it is, but as we are.

I always joke that my kids‘ favorite holiday is Father’s Day. They love the way I celebrate the occasion by writing each of them a thank-you letter and a generous check. It’s my way of letting them know how much I appreciate the great pleasure and privilege of being their dad.

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

A fool is wise in his eyes.

It’s different from being 21 and you think there’s endless amount of opportunities. At 33, the ending is much, much closer.

Life is a journey. When we stop, things don’t go right.

Music is like film to me.

Protect your enthusiasm from the negativity of others.

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.

The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don’t have.

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

I am a normal guy from the Black Forest, and I do not compare myself with the geniuses.

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

Reality simply consists of different points of view.

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

I’ve been trying to… Having been an English literary graduate, I’ve been trying to avoid the idea of doing art ever since. I think the idea of art kills creativity.

You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind.

To the people I forgot, you weren’t on my mind for some reason and you probably don’t deserve any thanks anyway.

I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.

I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.

I’m always happy to blow up any misconceptions that people have about stage school cos everyone thinks it’s really nasty there but it’s not.

Judgements prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances.

People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.

If you give, you will be blessed.

A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.

When people need love and understanding and support the most is when they deserve it the least.

Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas.

Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories – and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories.

Seek first to understand, then to be understood.

The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life.

There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.

We have a choice about how we take what happens to us in our life and whether or not we allow it to turn us. We can become consumed by hate and darkness, or we’re able to regain our humanity somehow, or come to terms with things and learn something about ourselves.

I’m actually starting to like more and more people who have convictions that are unpopular.

Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.

‚Kiss Land‘ is like a horror movie.

Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.

It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world to the other.

My father wasn’t around when I was a kid, and I used to always say, ‚Why me? Why don’t I have a father? Why isn’t he around? Why did he leave my mother?‘ But as I got older I looked deeper and thought, ‚I don’t know what my father was going through, but if he was around all the time, would I be who I am today?‘

Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.

For so many people, television and movies may be the only way they understand people who aren’t like them.

If I feel good about my parenting, I have no interest in judging other people’s choices. If I feel good about my body, I don’t go around making fun of other people’s weight or appearance. We’re hard on each other because we’re using each other as a launching pad out of our own perceived deficiency.

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.

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.

Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful.

It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

When you’re born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you’re born in America, you get a front row seat.

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.