Do everything as in the eye of another.

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

We don’t get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like.

Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.

The royal road to a man’s heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.

There are no moral phenomena at all, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena.

I was brought up differently than the average American child because the average child is brought up expecting to be happy.

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God – the rest will be given.

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

When I left Dortmund, I said it’s not important what people think when you come in but what they think when you leave.

The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.

In fact men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth – often more so, since a superstition is so intangible you cannot get at it to refute it, but truth is a point of view, and so is changeable.

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.

And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.

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

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.

There’s no way to remove the observer – us – from our perceptions of the world.

There is something curiously boring about somebody else’s happiness.

Sadly, of course, there is real evil in the world. You watch the news, and you see all of the people suffering and so much cruelty.

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

As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!

Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.

Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own.

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

The supernatural is the natural not yet understood.

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.

He who has felt his own ruin will not imagine the case of any to be hopeless; nor will he think them too fallen to be worthy his regard.

Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.

We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other’s happiness, not by each other’s misery.

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.

We cannot insist only on issues related to abortion, gay marriage and the use of contraceptive methods. The teaching of the church is clear, and I am a son of the church, but it is not necessary to talk about these issues all the time.

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

There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.

Sin is geographical.

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.

Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which, before their union, were not perceived to have any relation.

We cannot possibly let ourselves get frozen into regarding everyone we do not know as an absolute stranger.

We should not say that one man’s hour is worth another man’s hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time’s carcass.

Mediocre theoretical physicists make no progress. They spend all their time understanding other people’s progress.

They are resilient children, but they are children, and as much as they need help to understand the hard truths in life, they also need what we all need – protection and love.

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

Most people have no idea what something would sound like if it wasn’t an MP3.

Yesterday’s weirdness is tomorrow’s reason why.

I come from a poor family, I have seen poverty. The poor need respect, and it begins with cleanliness.

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

An example I often use to illustrate the reality of vanity, is this: look at the peacock; it’s beautiful if you look at it from the front. But if you look at it from behind, you discover the truth… Whoever gives in to such self-absorbed vanity has huge misery hiding inside them.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

Being a good listener is absolutely critical to being a good leader; you have to listen to the people who are on the front line.

People see things differently and remember things differently. It’s why if somebody robs a liquor store and there are four witnesses they’ll often disagree.

I often advocate that we look at many sides of an issue, walk in someone else’s shoes, and identify and reject false choices.

Life is not living in the suburbs with a white picket fence. That’s not life. Somehow our American culture has made it out that that’s what life needs to be – and that if it’s not that, it’s all screwed up. It’s not.

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.

Back when I was in school, few people understood dyslexia and what to do for it. My teachers thought I was lazy and not very clever, and I got bored easily… thinking of all the things I could do once I left school. I couldn’t always follow what was going on.

The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.

I have an expression I use as I’ve gone around the world through my career: ‚You never tell another man or woman what’s in their interest. They know their interest better than you know their interest.‘

There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.

I feel like everything we do comes down to how it looks. Even no branding is branding. For example, you had no face or image to put to my music at first. That was branding.

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

It’s not morbid to talk about death. Most people don’t worry about death, they worry about a bad death.