I had a much better view with the halo than I expected.

I believe everyone should have a broad picture of how the universe operates and our place in it. It is a basic human desire. And it also puts our worries in perspective.

One likes people much better when they’re battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.

I’m not somebody that thinks about destiny and fate, but I don’t walk away from it when something unfolds.

I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can’t see from the center.

I have a hard time figuring out what kind of box to put me in, too, because I don’t know exactly what’s going on around me or why. But I need to stay outside of boxes because then I can look at what’s inside of them without being part of them.

Ageing’s alright, better than the alternative, which is not being here.

We do not know what is really good or bad fortune.

In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and to the young, it comes with bitterest agony because it takes them unawares. I have had experience enough to know what I say.

Truths and roses have thorns about them.

When I’m a director, I look at myself the actor as a completely different person. It’s somebody else up there, an actor playing a role. I keep myself out of it.

In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.

Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.

It is not your paintings I like, it is your painting.

I wish I could give you a lot of advice, based on my experience of winning political debates. But I don’t have that experience. My only experience is at losing them.

Age merely shows what children we remain.

It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.

Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.

History is more or less bunk.

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven’t committed.

So I’ve seen life as one long learning process. And if I see – you know, if I fly on somebody else’s airline and find the experience is not a pleasant one, which it wasn’t in – 21 years ago, then I’d think, well, you know, maybe I can create the kind of airline that I’d like to fly on.

A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.

And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high.

The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.

There’s something about being in front of a live audience that’s fun. It’s a really interesting, very electric, very alive, and intense experience, and you can’t get it anywhere else. And I’ve been doing it since I was 23, so it’s part of my being – it’s part of my fabric as a person.

Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.

There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.

Things ain’t what they used to be and never were.

Modern travelling is not travelling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel.

He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.

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.

Once you get into this great stream of history, you can’t get out.

If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.

We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success.

I’ve been everywhere in the world, seen everything, had everything a man can have.

One day it will be over, and I don’t care.

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.

You have to see and smell and feel the circumstances of people to really understand them.

Hope is favorable and confident expectation; it’s an expectant attitude that something good is going to happen and things will work out, no matter what situation we’re facing.

I try to look on all the great things God’s done, and not focus on the negative. It’s a perspective.

See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse.

The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.

I never admire another’s fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.

I never get too high on my stardom or what I can do.

One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.

To be radical, an empiricism must neither admit into its constructions any element that is not directly experienced, nor exclude from them any element that is directly experienced.

The way up and the way down are one and the same.

Everything isn’t political.

What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.

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.

Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?

Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.

I’ve found men are less likely to let petty things annoy them.

As you get older, time speeds up but life slows down.

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

I’ve lived in good climate, and it bores the hell out of me. I like weather rather than climate.

It’s presumptuous to say you know how somebody feels.