I long remained a child, and I am still one in many respects.

Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.

Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.

When you are angry or frustrated, what comes out? Whatever it is, it’s a good indication of what you’re made of.

We judge people in areas where we’re vulnerable to shame, especially picking folks who are doing worse than we’re doing.

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

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.

All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows.

I don’t do research. I never have.

Go on thinking that you don’t need to be read and you’ll find that it may become quite true: no one will feel the need tom read it because it is written for yourself alone; and the public won’t feel any impulse to gate crash such a private party.

To see things in the seed, that is genius.

Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is a frightening prospect.

I’m a super-duper over-analyzer. You mix that with self-doubt and pressure, and that’s never healthy.

Why regret anything? Where does it get you to regret anything you’ve ever done in your life? It gets you nowhere. It’s a pathetic emotion that you can wallow in.

The child in you, like all children, loves to laugh, to be around people who can laugh at themselves and life. Children instinctively know that the more laughter we have in our lives, the better.

While you’re saving your face, you’re losing your ass.

Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.

The man who can centre his thoughts and hopes upon something transcending self can find a certain peace in the ordinary troubles of life, which is impossible to the pure egoist.

The feeling is constantly growing on me that I had been the first to hear the greeting of one planet to another.

I’m just a kid – I’ve got a lot of stuff to do yet.

I have made a few mistakes early on that I admit myself, and there have been times when I have gone over the top and done things that you shouldn’t do in international cricket, but that’s how you learn.

Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.

The best of us must sometimes eat our words.

The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Whoever will be born must destroy a world.

I was probably tall as a child, but I just stopped growing.

When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.

We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven.

Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed… Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.

My biggest error? Something that is to happen yet.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

When we see the face of a child, we think of the future. We think of their dreams about what they might become, and what they might accomplish.

My overall look on things is a lot more mature than it used to be.

You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.

One must change one’s tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one’s superiority.

With fame, you know, you can read about yourself, somebody else’s ideas about you, but what’s important is how you feel about yourself – for survival and living day to day with what comes up.

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

I think I have always had a little humor.

As long as your intentions are solid and about growth and progression and being productive and not being idle, then you’re doing good in my book.

Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.

As I got older, I guess I became more mellow and more forgiving and more loving.

In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.

I’ve been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.

Let us ask ourselves, ‚What kind of people do we think we are?‘ And let us answer, ‚Free people, worthy of freedom and determined not only to remain so but to help others gain their freedom as well.‘

And I saw the sax line-up that he had behind him and I thought, I’m going to learn the saxophone. When I grow up, I’m going to play in his band. So I sort of persuaded my dad to get me a kind of a plastic saxophone on the hire purchase plan.

I never dreamed of being a pop star when I was a child.

A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.

Changing your mind is probably one of the most beautiful things people can do. And I’ve changed my mind about a lot of things over the years.

My dad had a church of 90 people when I was born. It was just, over the years it continued to grow.

My thought is me: that is why I cannot stop thinking. I exist because I think I cannot keep from thinking.

This was life in the ’30s. This is the way it was with children in the South. I tried to make it general, the kind of things that might happen to any child.

You’re dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway.

I grew up in a funny way.

Men take only their needs into consideration – never their abilities.

Every time somebody speaks of my honesty, there is someone who quivers inside me.

Prime time for men is, say, 35 to 45. Then they level off and fall off.

I don’t know if I particularly want to be remembered for anything. I personally do not think I’m a great gift to the world. I’ve been very fortunate.

All my life I’ve been taught how to die, but no one ever taught me how to grow old.

It is true that going out on to the street implies the risk of accidents happening, as they would to any ordinary man or woman. But if the church stays wrapped up in itself, it will age. And if I had to choose between a wounded church that goes out on to the streets and a sick, withdrawn church, I would definitely choose the first one.

Violence, even well intentioned, always rebounds upon oneself.

Sports are basically our way of feeling sorry for ourselves. Most men can’t become athletes. We’re watching guys who actually made it. We see them dunking and making touchdowns. Then we think about ourselves when we were younger.