I have this feeling that the world is not in balance. And people are afraid, but we’re also starting to be really brave.

Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?

I am for people. I can’t help it.

I love playing ego and insecurity combined.

Americans are rising to the tasks of history, and they expect the same of us.

Of course, ‚I Will Always Love You‘ is the biggest song so far in my career. I’m famous for several, but that one has been recorded by more people and made me more money, I think, than all of them. But that song did come from a true and deep place in my heart.

Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.

A man is more frank and sincere with his emotions than a woman. We girls, I’m afraid, have a tendency to hide our feelings.

The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.

All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.

He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.

Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.

The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.

Cry if you have a compound fracture, by all means. Or if your grandpa died. But otherwise, save it for your pillow.

The only answer to fear is faith in God, knowing He loves you unconditionally and individually.

To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.

Love is trembling happiness.

Tears come from the heart and not from the brain.

The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.

The future is called ‚perhaps‘, which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.

We are braver and wiser because they existed, those strong women and strong men… We are who we are because they were who they were. It’s wise to know where you come from, who called your name.

One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end.

If you’re not producing as much as you consume, or perhaps a little more, then clearly we cannot use the big organization of our society for the purpose of keeping you alive, because your life does not benefit us, and it can’t be of very much use to yourself.

Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

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

War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.

The very word ‚secrecy‘ is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings.

I’m a songwriter. Everything affects me.

A true man hates no one.

He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.

We all have two lives: an inner life and an outer life. Your inner life is your soul life, which includes your mind, will and emotions. Your outer life is your physical life. And while God cares about every detail of your life, He is more concerned with your inner life than your outer life.

I would storm the gates of Hell if Third Marine Air Wing was overhead.

First, how do we give everyone a fair shot at opportunity and security in this new economy? Second, how do we make technology work for us, and not against us – especially when it comes to solving urgent challenges like climate change? Third, how do we keep America safe and lead the world without becoming its policeman?

Humanity I love you because when you’re hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.

We can, for example, be fairly confident that either there will be a world without war or there won’t be a world – at least, a world inhabited by creatures other than bacteria and beetles, with some scattering of others.

A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman.

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.

But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?

I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.

Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.

Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.

No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.

It’s possible to love a human being if you don’t know them too well.

The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.

The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

People have never looked so ugly as they do today. We just consume far too much.

Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.

I’m afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.

The ads all call me fearless, but that’s just publicity. Anyone who thinks I’m not scared out of my mind whenever I do one of my stunts is crazier than I am.

Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.

The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.

Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.

I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.

If merely ‚feeling good‘ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.

Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.

I don’t fear anybody… at all.

Step with care and great tact, and remember that Life’s a Great Balancing Act.

What I tell my kids is, ‚I’m preparing you for college and for life. So, having independence, knowing how to set your own boundaries, figuring out how to make that balance. We still have screen-time rules.‘