Everybody looks like clones and the only people you notice are my age. I don’t notice anybody unless they look great, and every now and again they do, and they are usually 70.

Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.

We do not see people as they are, but as they appear to us. And these appearances are usually misleading.

Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.

Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.

When I was younger, I was testing myself and questioning everything, but now it’s less about that and more about these are the years of my life with my family.

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

The upward course of a nation’s history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.

Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?

Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.

Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

It is indeed a matter of great difficulty to discover, and effectually to distinguish, the true motions of particular bodies from the apparent because the parts of that immovable space, in which those motions are performed, do by no means come under the observation of our senses.

Taking care of children has nothing to do with politics. I think perhaps with time, instead of there being a politicization of humanitarian aid, there will be a humanization of politics.

People do dismiss ambient music, don’t they? They call it ‚easy listening,‘ as if to suggest that it should be hard to listen to.

While children are struggling to be unique, the world around them is trying all means to make them look like everybody else.

Honestly, I like everything, boyish girls, girlish boys, the heavy and the skinny.

Vanity is but the surface.

Well, I’m in my 60s now. I finally look it, I think. People until I was 60 would always say they thought I looked younger, which I think, without flattering myself, I did, but I think I certainly have, as George Orwell says people do after a certain age, the face they deserve.

I guess maybe when you get past 70, other people start asking you how you feel.

Meaning and reality were not hidden somewhere behind things, they were in them, in all of them.

You notice how liberals keep saying, ‚If only Islam would have a Reformation‘ – it can’t have one. It says it can’t. It’s extremely dangerous in that way.

Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one’s never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.

My grandmother is over eighty and still doesn’t need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle.

If I went back to my 20-year-old self, what I would tell my 20-year-old self is, ‚You don’t know anything.‘ Because everyone, when they’re young, they think they know what’s going on in the world, and you don’t.

It is necessary to look at the results of observation objectively, because you, the experimenter, might like one result better than another.

Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.

Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.

We think that the world is a solid, vivid place, full of shape and colour and solid objects like this table and this microphone and so on, but we actually create that in our heads out of the bits of information that hit the back of our eyeballs or hit our eardrums or hit our tongues or whatever.

Of all the senses, sight must be the most delightful.

Age doesn’t bother me. So many of my heroes were older guys. It’s the lack of years left that weighs far heavier on me than the age that I am.

It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.

For me, bomber jackets are smart, but they are also street and have a lot of attitude.

The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery.

If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different.

The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.

Perception often lags behind reality, and I can say from experience that the vast majority of public officials in Louisiana are much better than our reputation holds us to be.

Governments don’t control people like they used to.

No member of our generation who wasn’t a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn.

All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract; or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience.

Democracy don’t rule the world, You’d better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that’s better left unsaid.

The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.

Work is that which you dislike doing but perform for the sake of external rewards. At school, this takes the form of grades. In society, it means money, status, privilege.

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.

When I look at public opinion, I’m not far out of the mainstream. I’m in it, in many respects. In some respects, public opinion goes beyond anything I’ve ever said.

If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win.

When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.

The eyes like sentinel occupy the highest place in the body.

The eye sees what it brings the power to see.

The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

Fashion is one thing, but style is another.

The masculine spirit is under assault. It’s obvious.

To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia – to mistake an ordinary young woman for a goddess.

I love to watch times change!

I am not handsome or sexy. Of course, it’s not like I am hopeless.

Basketball is booming, and it’s not just an Under Armour standpoint: it’s about the game itself. Kids going out and playing and being inspired by what we do on the court.

Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.

People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.

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.