Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.

Baldwin thought Europe was a bore, and Chamberlain thought it was only a greater Birmingham.

As a musician and a songwriter, it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in your point of view. But it is usually an empathetic nature that gets you going in the first place.

It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world to the other.

I’ll die a crazy old man!

I shook up the world, I shook up the world.

Most of our lives aren’t that exciting, but the drama is still going on in the small details.

My lips, I’ve used collagen. I line my lips with collagen.

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.

What people see on court is another side of me; it’s not me.

Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.

After all, life hasn’t much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.

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

I know now that there is no one thing that is true – it is all true.

Who sows virtue reaps honor.

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

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

I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.

In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.

The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I’m just not close enough to get the job done.

Players today moan about the number of games, but when you’re young, you can’t play enough.

How sweet is the perception of a new natural fact!

Life is so, so short. Bible says it’s like a vapor.

Life is a song to me.

A home without books is a body without soul.

There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass.

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

I can’t even speak Hawaiian, but if you go there and listen to a Hawaiian song, you get captured because it’s so beautiful, like the melody is just gorgeous and you know Bob Marley is on the radio every single day. It’s very reggae-influenced down there. Basically, you haven’t been to paradise if you haven’t been to Hawaii.

Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.

The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.

See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise, you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists forget that.

I never expect to see a perfect work from an imperfect man.

If my mother knew I did this for a living, she’d kill me. She thinks I’m selling dope.

All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.

If God dropped acid, would he see people?

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don’t.

Never pray for justice, because you might get some.

We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.

Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.

But to me nothing – the negative, the empty – is exceedingly powerful.

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.

Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is impossible to foresee this, it is impossible to be warned.

In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they’re still beautiful.

Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them.

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

It’s true that obscenity is a matter of taste and in the eye of the beholder.

I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we’re really talking about peace.

Some men see things as they are, and say why. I dream of things that never were, and say why not.

I don’t think I would be interested in the climate at all if I had been like everyone else.

You were not created to just get by with an average, unrewarding, or unfulfilling life. God created you to leave your mark on this generation.

If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.

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.

It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.

Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.

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

Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.

No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.

I, personally, think there is a really danger of taking food too seriously. Food should be part of the bigger picture.