I think there is a sense of being forced at this time to look at America’s really large shadow and that’s not all that bad.

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

It’s not the destination that matters. It’s the change of scene.

Dissents speak to a future age.

I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.

Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong.

Yesterday’s just a memory, tomorrow is never what it’s supposed to be.

You’re just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You’ve got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It’s all down to you, mate.

Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?

The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others.

You tell me: Can you live crushed under the weight of the present? Without a memory of the past and without the desire to look ahead to the future by building something, a future, a family? Can you go on like this? This, to me, is the most urgent problem that the Church is facing.

I’m not claiming divinity. I’ve never claimed purity of soul. I’ve never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can… But I still believe in peace, love and understanding.

I think the word rich is all relative.

The eye sees what it brings the power to see.

Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.

It’s overwhelmingly in the self-interest of the United States of America to have a secure, democratic friend, a strategic partner like Israel.

Some days I totally appreciate everything that’s happening to me, and some days I feel everyone’s waiting for me to mess up.

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.

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

No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.

A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt.

I have learned to know God. I have recast my social belief… All my admirers are married; most of my friends are dead; and I stand with all the world before me, where to choose a path to make in it.

I’m actually a very honest person, and sometimes I end up like, ‚Man, I said too much.‘ It’s hard for me not to tell the truth when you ask me.

The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.

We view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes; we have no wish to find them alike.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

Throughout my years in business, I discovered something. I would always ask why you do things. The answers that I would invariably get are: ‚Oh, that’s just the way things are done around here.‘ Nobody knows why they do what they do. Nobody thinks very deeply about things in business.

The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.

When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.

The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person.

To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.

In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start.

Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.

For me, there are two types of people: the young and the experienced.

In terms of doing work and in terms of learning and evolving as a person, you just grow more when you get more people’s perspectives… I really try and live the mission of the company and… keep everything else in my life extremely simple.

I’ve always felt quite singular, even as a child. That I must stay on track to keep my purpose.

This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.

The end is the beginning of all things, Suppressed and hidden, Awaiting to be released through the rhythm Of pain and pleasure.

I wouldn’t say that I am one of the greatest dancers, but I am really quite good at what I do.

Silence is golden when you can’t think of a good answer.

Pretension is a poor joke that you play on yourself. Snap out of it. Recognise your strengths, work on your weaknesses. Real achievement is liking what you see in the mirror every morning.

If you don’t like what you’re doing, then don’t do it.

God reigns when we take a liberal view, when a liberal view is presented to us.

I don’t know who I touch and who I don’t. I work hard trying to make people laugh. I try to do the kind of stuff that made me laugh growing up. I don’t have any secrets. I don’t know the reasons I’ve been so well received.

When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.

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

It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

Anybody can be specific and obvious. That’s always been the easy way. It’s not that it’s so difficult to be unspecific and less obvious; it’s just that there’s nothing, absolutely nothing, to be specific and obvious about.

I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.

Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will.

Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist.

John Kerry believes in an America where hard work is rewarded.

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

I don’t think I’ve ever felt that same kind of peace, the kind of serenity that I felt after acknowledging that maybe I was going to die of this TB.

The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.

Sometimes you stumble across a few chords that put you in a reflective place.

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.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.

Even if you’re happy with the life you’ve chosen, you’re still curious about the other options.