Funny thing is that the poorer people are, the more generous they seem to be.

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.

Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true.

Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them.

Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.

A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip.

Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.

Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.

One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.

When you’re young, you look at television and think, there’s a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that’s not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want.

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.

Stay humble and be concerned for the less fortunate.

My aim is to make the poor look rich and the rich look poor.

Is it not important to find out how to listen not only to what is being said but to everything – to the noise in the streets, to the chatter of birds, to the noise of the tramcar, to the restless sea, to the voice of your husband, to your wife, to your friends, to the cry of a baby?

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

He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.

You are the sum total of everything you’ve ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot – it’s all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.

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

If I close my eyes and think of Hollywood, all I see is one big varicose vein.

We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it.

Human nature is not nearly as bad as it has been thought to be.

Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.

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

No one has ever become poor by giving.

There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.

He had but one eye, and the popular prejudice runs in favor of two.

I’ve always felt like there was a lot of hype around me even when there wasn’t. I felt like everyone was talking about me even when no one was talking about me.

People talk to people who perceive nothing, who have open eyes and see nothing; they shall talk to them and receive no answer; they shall adore those who have ears and hear nothing; they shall burn lamps for those who do not see.

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.

Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.

An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.

Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.

Not always actions show the man; we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind.

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

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

Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

O wise man! Give your wealth only to the worthy and never to others. The water of the sea received by the clouds is always sweet.

Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.

Many people find the universe confusing – it’s not.

There’s no reality except the one contained within us. That’s why so many people live an unreal life. They take images outside them for reality and never allow the world within them to assert itself.

Aggression unopposed becomes a contagious disease.

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

It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.

In too many communities, too many young men of color are left behind and seen only as objects of fear. Through initiatives like My Brother’s Keeper, I’m personally committed to changing both perception and reality.

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

People think I’m a celebrity. I’m not a celebrity.

The only way to get love is to be lovable. It’s very irritating if you have a lot of money. You’d like to think you could write a check: ‚I’ll buy a million dollars‘ worth of love.‘ But it doesn’t work that way. The more you give love away, the more you get.

People who bowl vote. Bowlers are not the cultural elite.

A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.

A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.

People wonder aloud about whether I am an okay mother. That is obviously painful because it’s so important to me. It’s hard to hear that people think I’m not a capable mother and a good person, that they just think I’m nuts.

Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other: given the upper, to find the under side.

We are not cisterns made for hoarding, we are channels made for sharing.

My father always taught me that when you help other people, then God will give you double. And that’s what has really happened to me. When I have helped other people who are in need, God has helped me more.

Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.

Giving is better than receiving because giving starts the receiving process.

You can’t be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who’s for you and who’s against you.

Everybody has their thing they like or don’t like to see. It’s all in your head. That’s why people take their own pictures, because it’s difficult for someone else to capture what you seek.

Vanity is but the surface.

The outside perception and inside perception of Microsoft are so different. The view of Microsoft inside Microsoft is always kind of an underdog thing.