Go up in an airplane. Go high enough, and it’s like we don’t even exist.

It isn’t what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.

Our lifelong certainties about the world can be demolished in a single second.

To share the dressing room of club and country with Bhai was an amazing experience. I learnt a lot from him and other senior players like Renedy Singh.

We are anthill men upon an anthill world.

Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.

In my early teens, I knew I wanted to do television production. I loved cameras, editing and producing, anything that had to do with television production. My friend had a production studio across town, and we’d go over there at night and shoot and edit. I produced my father’s televised service for 17 years.

Sometimes the majority just means all the fools are on the same side.

Your joy comes from how you think, the choices that we make in life.

I am not young enough to know everything.

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

When I see a story, I ask: is this something I’d like to be in? Is this something I’d like to see? And if I’d like to see it, would I like to tell it?

The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.

Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

Things don’t have to change the world to be important.

There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.

Experience is the teacher of all things.

I’m too busy acting like I’m not Naive. I’ve seen it all, I was here first.

While victimhood in America is exalted, I don’t think our veterans should join those ranks.

While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed. It showed me that even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn’t the end of everything. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges.

I confused things with their names: that is belief.

If I make music and people hate it, you know, whatever. I’ll die someday, and one day, they will too.

I really don’t pay attention to the outside world when I’m incarcerated, because being in prison is like being in a different world. So I don’t pay attention to what’s going on outside of jail, because it’s all beyond my control.

I write for myself things that I’ve gone through.

The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.

I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.

I imagine that yes is the only living thing.

I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.

A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority.

For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.

It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?

What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.

The common question that gets asked in business is, ‚why?‘ That’s a good question, but an equally valid question is, ‚why not?‘

There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.

The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.

Say not, ‚I have found the truth,‘ but rather, ‚I have found a truth.‘

I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.

When you are young you tend to do so many things that are not needed. When you get experience, you know what exactly what works for you and you tend to do things that you want.

If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life.

The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream that this watch exists and has no watchmaker.

There is always something infinitely mean about other people’s tragedies.

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.

We think we have solved the mystery of creation. Maybe we should patent the universe and charge everyone royalties for their existence.

From the dust of the earth, from the common elementary fund, the Creator has made Homo sapiens. From the same material he has made every other creature, however noxious and insignificant to us. They are earth-born companions and our fellow mortals.

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 only source of knowledge is experience.

The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.

Life is a song to me.

I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!

There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.

Comedians are sociologists. We’re pointing out stuff that the general public doesn’t even stop to think about, looking at life in slow-motion and questioning everything we see.

We are often raised as dependents then given over to teachers. It’s experience and exploration that can transform us and lead to mastery.

I have an expression I use as I’ve gone around the world through my career: ‚You never tell another man or woman what’s in their interest. They know their interest better than you know their interest.‘

In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.

I like being able to be on the inside of music, rather than on the outside listening to it.

Certain though I am – and ever more certain – that I must press on in life as though Christ awaited me at the term of the universe, at the same time I feel no special assurance of the existence of Christ. Believing is not seeing. As much as anyone, I imagine, I walk in the shadows of faith.

Nothing cannot exist forever.

Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.

I tend to believe that audiences are relatively well-balanced people.

I worked with Lawrence Olivier some years ago. He was a great mentor.