I mean, if you didn’t get it or if you didn’t feel like you enjoyed it, sometimes that experience can change.

If you deny people their own voice, you’ll have no idea of who they were.

Last year we said, ‚Things can’t go on like this‘, and they didn’t, they got worse.

I think that man has a fundamental obligation to extract from himself and from the earth all that it can give; and this obligation is all the more imperative that we are absolutely ignorant of what limits – they may still be very distant – God has imposed on our natural understanding and power.

Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.

To ‚choose‘ dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid.

In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.

The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.

The world is before you and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.

Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.

I’ve learned that we all change constantly. It’s rare to find that person who is growing with you in the same way at the same time, who encourages you to grow.

The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.

No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground.

When there’s justice and change, you start to see the cleansing of the soul, and that is what I want for people, and I hope it’s okay for me to say those things.

So thoroughly and sincerely are we compelled to live, reverencing our life, and denying the possibility of change. This is the only way, we say; but there are as many ways as there can be drawn radii from one centre. All change is a miracle to contemplate; but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant.

Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.

New roads; new ruts.

I hate to mention age, but I come from an era when we weren’t consumed by technology and television.

Ultimately, a real understanding of history means that we face nothing new under the sun.

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

Proselytism is solemn nonsense; it makes no sense. We need to get to know each other, listen to each other and improve our knowledge of the world around us.

Don’t ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

The philosophical question before us is, when we make an observation of our track in the past, does the result of our observation become real in the same sense that the final state would be defined if an outside observer were to make the observation?

Every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.

I don’t care about age. Nor do I care about those who do not accept the science. I don’t have as much experience, and therefore I listen more. But I also have the right to express my opinion, no matter my age.

It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

The truth may be out there, but lies are inside your head.

Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin.

Sometimes what works 40 years ago doesn’t work today.

I am desperate for change – now – not in 8 years or 12 years, but right now.

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.

I see the world being slowly transformed into a wilderness; I hear the approaching thunder that, one day, will destroy us too. I feel the suffering of millions. And yet, when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that everything will change for the better, that this cruelty too shall end, that peace and tranquility will return once more.

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.

Older and wiser voices can help you find the right path, if you are only willing to listen.

You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.

My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.

I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.

I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience.

The more you are talked about the less powerful you are.

I was terrible in English. I couldn’t stand the subject. It seemed to me ridiculous to worry about whether you spelled something wrong or not, because English spelling is just a human convention – it has nothing to do with anything real, anything from nature.

Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts.

With compassion you can die for other people, like the mother who can die for her child. You have the courage to say it because you are not afraid of losing anything, because you know that understanding and love is the foundation of happiness. But if you have fear of losing your status, your position, you will not have the courage to do it.

As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!

We misjudge risk if we feel we have some control over it, even if it’s an illusory sense of control.

Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves.

That summer after the draft was probably the most fun I’ve ever had, because all I had to do every day was wake up and go work out for four or five hours. I got to play some golf, which I love to do, too, and then got to hang out with my family.

Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect.

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.

If you change and adapt your persona, you are seen as inauthentic; if you stay the angry young man, you fade from attention or seem tiresome.

Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.

A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.

The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn’t intended.

Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness.

When you have enough understanding and compassion in you, then that amount of understanding and compassion will try to express itself in action. And your practice should help you to cultivate more understanding and compassion.

I think the American people, with some justification, think that most politicians live in la-la land.

They that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils.

Because of my wrestling background, nothing a director can throw at me on a set can faze me.

Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.