I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.

Right after 9-11, as far as I know, one newspaper in the United States had the integrity to investigate opinion in the Muslim world: the ‚Wall Street Journal.‘

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.

I’m 31 now. I think I’m beginning to understand what life is, what romance is, and what a relationship means.

A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.

Fear is present when we forget that we are a part of God’s divine design. Learning to experience authentic love means abandoning ego’s insistence that you have much to fear and that you are in an unfriendly world. You can make the decision to be free from fear and doubt and return to the brilliant light of love that is always with you.

You know, my family and friends have never been yes-men: ‚Yes, you’re doing the right thing, you’re always right.‘ No, they tell me when I’m wrong, and that’s why I’ve been able to stay who I am and stay humble.

We conceal it from ourselves in vain – we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.

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

Actor’s life is very long.

Many people resented my impatience and honesty, but I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.

The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.

We might as well die as to go on living like this.

I definitely connected to the fact that life gets out of control and you end up doing things and wishing you were doing other things instead.

Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.

Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‚What are you doing for others?‘

A worthy woman personifies the truly noble and worthwhile attributes of life.

I have rules for a lot of areas of my life. Love is not going to be one of them.

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.

Life is a dead-end street.

Vulnerability is about showing up and being seen. It’s tough to do that when we’re terrified about what people might see or think.

It put our energies to sleep and made visionaries of us – dreamers and indolent… It is good to begin life poor; it is good to begin life rich – these are wholesome; but to begin it prospectively rich! The man who has not experienced it cannot imagine the curse of it.

You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.

Some may never live, but the crazy never die.

There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.

Anyone who doesn’t take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

It is very hard to not be able to engage with people in a real and honest way because they either want something from me, or they see me as something that I simply am not.

Life is a journey. When we stop, things don’t go right.

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.

In football, it’s the job of the player to play, the coach to coach, the official to officiate. Each guy is charged with upholding his end, nothing more. In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely. Golf really is the best microcosm of life – or at least the way life should be.

Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don’t have brains enough to be honest.

We must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

I don’t ever want to come out with something safe and get away with, ‚It sounds good!‘ It’s got to be more than sounding good. The music I like are events.

Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.

I don’t make people bend over backwards, and I don’t like that in people. I am definitely no diva.

Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

Unbeing dead isn’t being alive.

If a man had more than one life, I think a little hanging would not hurt this one; but after he is once dead, we cannot bring him back, no matter how sorry we may be; so the boy shall be pardoned.

I meant what I said and I said what I meant.

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.

Our life is frittered away by detail… simplify, simplify.

My thing is this; if I’m sick enough to think it, then I’m sick enough to say it.

You’re not going to scare me into being somebody I don’t want to be.

The truth doesn’t hurt unless it ought to.

No one can pass through life, any more than he can pass through a bit of country, without leaving tracks behind, and those tracks may often be helpful to those coming after him in finding their way.

I find that when I get on stage now, I don’t want to perform a lot of my songs because they don’t feel like me. So I want to make songs that are timeless.

I don’t have stylistic loyalty. That’s why people perceive me changing all the time. But there is a real continuity in my subject matter. As an artist of artifice, I do believe I have more integrity than any one of my contemporaries.

This industry has been really good to me. It’s been a great life. I’m not through yet. I’m ready when you are, Mr. DeMille.

The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.

Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.

I think what’s important is for us to decipher what is honest and what is dishonest and be accepting of those things and not operating from fear.

The last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head, and that is the end forever.

Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.