Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.

I don’t know if I’ve ever cared much what others think.

I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.

I always have an optimistic view, no matter what it is.

I don’t pay a lot of attention to polls.

If you talk bad about country music, it’s like saying bad things about my momma. Them’s fightin‘ words.

I hope that what you take away from my album is not just the music – which I did want to be fun, and I did want it to be about individuality, but please also take away from it that there’s no dream that’s too big.

From my standpoint, being an artist, I want to see what the new construction is between artist and audience.

Everyone has their style and your style explains a lot about who you are – you feel me? I’ve had style since childhood, so I like to dress how I feel. But maybe I get carried away by some trends.

This is not a bad life.

The Public is merely a multiplied ‚me.‘

My style has always been my own, just like my flow and style.

Next to the young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish.

I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.

Human life is far more important than just getting to the top of a mountain.

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

With the possible exception of things like box scores, race results, and stock market tabulations, there is no such thing as Objective Journalism. The phrase itself is a pompous contradiction in terms.

When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.

The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.

‚Born this Way‘ is about being yourself, and loving who you are and being proud.

I’m 5’11, so when I wear heels, it’s definitely a really good view that I have. I’m, like, 6’2 when I wear heels, so I tend to wear cowboy boots a lot.

I try to see the good in everybody, and I don’t care who people are as long as they’re themselves, whatever that is.

If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.

Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world’s phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again.

I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me ‚understand‘ something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.

No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.

Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better.

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.

He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.

Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.

It’s very unnatural to be someone for so many people. But of course it’s very nice.

The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.

The people you choose to have around you make all the difference. My family and close friends keep me grounded. You have to have a mind of your own and a strong head on your shoulders. Cricket is the most important thing to me, so the rest of it pales in comparison.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

I am attracted to people who make this effort in knowing what suits them – they are individual and stylish.

I’ve never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It’s probably because they have forgotten their own.

I didn’t try to copy my dad or fit into the pressure or the mold that everybody tried to make me fit into.

Yeah, I did see where the people dissing me were coming from. But, it’s like, anything that happened in the past between black and white, I can’t really speak on it, because I wasn’t there. I don’t feel like me being born the color I am makes me any less of a person.

The poor are discussed as this homogeneous mash, like porridge. The idea that they might be individuals, and be where they are for very different, diverse reasons, again seems to escape some people.

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

Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.

No one but a fool is always right.

I don’t have this feeling that 70 is really old.

The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.

The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.

When you realize who you live for, and who’s important to please, a lot of people will actually start living. I am never going to get caught up in that. I’m gonna look back on my life and say that I enjoyed it – and I lived it for me.

For me, money is not my definition of success. Inspiring people is a definition of success.

There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.

If everything isn’t black and white, I say, ‚Why the hell not?‘

In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory.

A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we’re children, but we bear the scars all our life. Whether they’re scars of beauty or scars of ugliness, it’s pretty much in the eye of the beholder.

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

I’m on the autism spectrum. I don’t usually follow social coding and so therefore I go my own way.

When I began in 1960, individuality wasn’t an accepted thing to look for; it was about species-specific behaviour. But animal behaviour is not hard science. There’s room for intuition.

By the sole fact of his entering into ‚Thought,‘ man represents something entirely singular and absolutely unique in the field of our experience. On a single planet, there could not be more than one centre of emergence for reflexion.

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.

Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.

We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success.

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