Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.

‚Bombing Afghanistan back into the Stone Age‘ was quite a favourite headline for some wobbly liberals. The slogan does all the work. But an instant’s thought shows that Afghanistan is being, if anything, bombed out of the Stone Age.

A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.

Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‚What are you doing for others?‘

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

If there are people you haven’t forgiven, you’re not going to really awaken. You have to let go.

When I was writing ‚Kitchen Confidential,‘ I was in my 40s, I had never paid rent on time, I was 10 years behind on my taxes, I had never owned my own furniture or a car.

All ways of living can be sanctified, and for each individual, the ideal way is that to which our Lord leads him through the natural development of his tastes and the pressure of circumstances.

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title.

The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.

Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.

The spirit becomes free only when it ceases to be a support.

The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.

I had my moments of being humiliated, and then I had moments of doing something humiliating. I’m glad I lived out both roles.

Everything isn’t political.

You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems and suffer and understand, for all that is life.

For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best.

Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others‘ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.

Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!

I think my worst problem is actually living in the moment and understanding everything that’s going on. I feel like I’m in my own bubble.

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.

I make preparations both to live and to die every day, but with the emphasis on not dying, and on acting as if I was going to carry on living.

How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?

I am getting to the point where the only love worth being in is the love worth singing about.

When granted many years of life, growing old in age is natural, but growing old with grace is a choice. Growing older with grace is possible for all who will set their hearts and minds on the Giver of grace, the Lord Jesus Christ.

Nothing fortifies scepticism more than the fact that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong.

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.

For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can’t be wrong whose life is in the right.

In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.

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

People make a big fuss over you when you’re President. But I’m very serious about doing everything I can to make sure that it doesn’t go to my head.

In so many ways, segregation shaped me, and education liberated me.

Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.

Reason is the enemy of faith.

Since I’m the president and Democrats have controlled the House and the Senate, it’s understandable that people are saying, you know, ‚What have you done?‘

Politics is not bean bags. It’s serious, tough stuff.

I’ve been called a recluse. There’s definitely truth in that. I like to spend time alone.

This election is about who’s going to be the next President of the United States!

Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.

As a kid from Compton, you can get all the success in the world and still question your worth.

When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.

When I was younger, I felt pressure to become someone else once I became successful.

The loss of life will be irreplaceable.

Whatever is making you so angry, it’s time for you to give it to God and get over it.

A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.

I mean… in life… what relationship is easy?

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.

When I was four, my mother insisted I get out of the car and find my own way home. Although I got lost, I did find my way home. It taught me the value of independence at an early age.

It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.

This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.

And die of nothing but a rage to live.

The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.

In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.

Life is not accumulation, it is about contribution.