Age merely shows what children we remain.

Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.

I’m not confused. I’m just well mixed.

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.

Comedians are sociologists. We’re pointing out stuff that the general public doesn’t even stop to think about, looking at life in slow-motion and questioning everything we see.

My fans saw me get engaged, saw me make that woman my wife, me having kids, me divorcing, me talking about divorce before the divorce, me talking about my kids‘ reaction to that divorce.

We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.

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.

Most poets are young simply because they have not been caught up. Show me an old poet, and I’ll show you, more often than not, either a madman or a master… it’s when you begin to lie to yourself in a poem in order simply to make a poem that you fail. That is why I do not rework poems.

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.

If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don’t care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.

What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity.

Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.

I don’t notice anybody unless they look great, and every now and again they do, and they are usually 70.

I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

I consider the fact that thousands of children die each day from starvation and a lack of medicine a crisis for humanity and a problem we must collectively attempt to solve.

Too many people measure how successful they are by how much money they make or the people that they associate with. In my opinion, true success should be measured by how happy you are.

If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life.

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

A squirrel dying in front of your house may be more relevant to your interests right now than people dying in Africa.

Change in all things is sweet.

Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

We’re so immaturely cynical as a culture. We’re not wise enough to look at an institution like marriage and to really things about what it means and what it signifies. It signifies a place where people can tie the ropes of their lives together so that they’re stronger. It signifies a place where people can tell the truth to one another.

My children love Maleficent’s voice, so they always make me do it at home.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

Our life is what our thoughts make it.

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.

Until we’re educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

I give the children education.

I was a peripheral visionary. I could see the future, but only way off to the side.

We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child’s eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below.

I tried being reasonable, I didn’t like it.

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

For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.

No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?

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.

I would have a workshop attached to every school, and one hour a day given up to the teaching of simple decorative arts. It would be a golden hour to the children.

When you’re writing a novel, you don’t want the reader to come out of it voting yes or no to some question. Life is more complicated than that. Reality simply consists of different points of view.

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.

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

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.

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.

There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.

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

Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.

Do creative, social, and civic attitudes change depending on where we live? Yes, I think so.

In praise there is more obtrusiveness than in blame.

What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.

Truths and roses have thorns about them.

Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.

The ‚Maddox Jolie-Pitt‘ Foundation’s work is inspired by our children and their connections to particular countries.

Whether or not I like a piece of data has very little bearing on whether or not I am likely to accept it.

It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace.

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.

If you are a parent, you have probably already realized that your children are always watching what you do. And just as children watch their parents and emulate their behavior, so do employees who are watching their bosses.

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