Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Old men are dangerous: it doesn’t matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

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.

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

The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.

Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

My life as a child did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.

It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves.

Howard Zinn was magical as a teacher. Witty, irreverent, and wise, he loved what he was teaching and clearly wanted his students to love it, also.

A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.

The false is nothing but an imitation of the true.

If you are born an artist, you have no choice but to fight to stay an artist.

It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture.

In the wake of the events of 11 September 2001, it now seems clear that the shock of the attacks was exploited in America.

The joy and love that I get from playing football are unbelievable. It is such a feeling that I want to give everything that I have got. I just enjoy it, I am living a life that I never even dreamt of.

I cook, I create, I’m incredibly excited by what I do, I’ve still got a lot to achieve.

A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.

Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.

I’ve made money, and I’ve been ripped off. I’ve had creative freedom, and I’ve been pressured to make hits. I have dealt with diva behavior from crazy musicians, and I have seen genius records by wonderful artists get completely ignored. I love music. I always will.

We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.

In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.

Live truth instead of professing it.

If I am judged for my work, many myths about me as an autocrat or otherwise would become clearer. I feel false propaganda will not last, and truth will ultimately prevail.

There’s just some magic in truth and honesty and openness.

I’m just someone who likes cooking and for whom sharing food is a form of expression.

I’m not concerned about all hell breaking loose, but that a PART of hell will break loose… it’ll be much harder to detect.

Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.

If a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.

Things ain’t what they used to be and never were.

I like some animals more than some people, some people more than some animals.

We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.

I would get out of school and go straight to my computer to create beats.

To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.

I’ve found men are less likely to let petty things annoy them.

I wanted to write.

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

The very phrase ‚foreign affairs‘ makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern.

Our life is what our thoughts make it.

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.

You have to understand that people that are hurting are going to criticize.

There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.

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

I was always interested in choreography – in making people think and feel something.

Humor is the most engaging cowardice.

I’m not somebody that thinks about destiny and fate, but I don’t walk away from it when something unfolds.

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

To understand the nature of the people one must be a prince, and to understand the nature of the prince, one must be of the people.

No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned… a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.

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

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

I consider myself to be as informed on American foreign policy as anyone in America.

Frankly, I mean, sometimes the interpretations I’ve seen on some of the songs that I’ve written are a lot more interesting than the input that I put in.

People react to fear, not love; they don’t teach that in Sunday School, but it’s true.

The object of the superior man is truth.

Hoover was a patriot in his heart, but he definitely exceeded his power.

You’re dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway.

I’ve watched a lot of people who became famous who completely change and I think it’s because they tend to believe all the hype that’s out there. I don’t think there’s that much hype about me.

Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.