If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn’t swim.

Ironically, parenting is a shame and judgment minefield precisely because most of us are wading through uncertainty and self-doubt when it comes to raising our children.

The idea is to try to give all the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgment in one particular direction or another.

When you’re young, you look at television and think, there’s a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that’s not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want.

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.

Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.

There’s a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.

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

There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.

Considering their impact, you might expect mosquitoes to get more attention than they do. Sharks kill fewer than a dozen people every year, and in the U.S. they get a week dedicated to them on TV every year.

Let a man walk ten miles steadily on a hot summer’s day along a dusty English road, and he will soon discover why beer was invented.

I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.

Some folks look at me and see a certain swagger, which in Texas is called ‚walking.‘

Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.

For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.

Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which, before their union, were not perceived to have any relation.

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

A true artist is expected to be all that is noble-minded, and this is not altogether a mistake; on the other hand, however, in what a mean way are critics allowed to pounce upon us.

There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.

I have all the emotions that everyone has; it just appears that I don’t.

We have a tendency to condemn people who are different from us, to define their sins as paramount and our own sinfulness as being insignificant.

If the critics are right that I’ve made all my decisions based on polls, then I must not be very good at reading them.

There are some people who need to wear a label round their necks to show that they are Christians at all, or else we might mistake them for sinners, their actions are so like those of the ungodly.

I’m interested in that drive, that rush to judgment, that is so prevalent in our society. We all know that pleasurable rush that comes from condemning, and in the short term it’s quite a satisfying thing to do, isn’t it?

What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.

The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.

It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.

Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it’s really how it works.

You are the sum total of everything you’ve ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot – it’s all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.

Don’t judge other people. For example, if you want God’s anointing to be on you for parenting, you need to be careful not to criticize other parents.

Judgements prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances.

Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.

The narrow bandwidth of TV has made us think that we are stupider than we are.

Extremely religious, legalistic people have a criticism or judgment about everyone and everything. They just have a way of bringing people down with what they say.

How we experience memory sometimes, it’s not linear. We’re not telling the stories to ourselves. We know the story; we’re just seeing it in flashes overlaid.

It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.

Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.

A lot of critics object to what I do, but I got into comedy to make people laugh, and I’ve always worked hard.

If you have enough people sitting around telling you you’re wonderful, then you start believing you’re fabulous, then someone tells you you stink and you believe that too!

It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there’s a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.

Everybody is going to have their critics. It’s easy to get discouraged in life.

There’s no way to remove the observer – us – from our perceptions of the world.

Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.

I think the depth, what children can handle and what they’re interested in, is much deeper than I think what people assume. I think it’s why sometimes we make things too simple for them.

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

People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.

If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.

The roaring thunder of the law and the fear of the terror of judgment are both used to bring us to Christ, but the final victory culminating in our salvation is won through God’s loving-kindness.

Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?

Really, I have to laugh because there was a whole set of stories that made me sound like the Dragon Lady, you know, ‚tough this and tough that.‘ Then there is this business about ‚gooey.‘ The bottom line is I am a pragmatic idealist.

People make jokes about my bosoms, why don’t they look underneath the breasts at the heart? It’s obvious I’ve got big ones and if people want to assume they’re not mine, then let them.

There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.

I’m not really concerned with portraying this tough warrior – I mean, that’s part of my job and I take that very seriously. But I don’t have anything to hide, and I’m not concerned with what people think.

We think that the world is a solid, vivid place, full of shape and colour and solid objects like this table and this microphone and so on, but we actually create that in our heads out of the bits of information that hit the back of our eyeballs or hit our eardrums or hit our tongues or whatever.

See things from the boy’s point of view.

If God dropped acid, would he see people?

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

Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child’s eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below.

The little man is still a man.