If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.

Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true.

Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.

I only see clearly what I remember.

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.

It was really hard for them to intimidate me. They felt I was intimidating. One of the growers had a name for me: I think it was ‚dragon lady‘ or something like it.

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

Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.

To the women and children, T stands for tender. To the bad guys and thugs, it stands for tough.

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

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.

Eyes and ears are poor witnesses to people if they have uncultured souls.

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

I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.

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

If God dropped acid, would he see people?

It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not exist.

See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise, you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists forget that.

The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.

Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.

I think Mick Jagger would be astounded and amazed if he realized that to many people he is not a sex symbol, but a mother image.

It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.

What if nothing exists and we’re all in somebody’s dream?

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.

When people meet me, they say that I’m really kind – contrary to a lot of my music.

Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.

There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.

Things ain’t what they used to be and never were.

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.

Not always actions show the man; we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind.

It seems that when you have cancer you are a brave battler against the disease, but when you have Alzheimer’s you are an old fart. That’s how people see you. It makes you feel quite alone.

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them.

Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it’s curved like a road through mountains.

An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.

What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.

If one plays good music, people don’t listen and if one plays bad music people don’t talk.

We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

See things from the boy’s point of view.

People only see what they are prepared to see.

Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.

But to me nothing – the negative, the empty – is exceedingly powerful.

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.

The outside perception and inside perception of Microsoft are so different. The view of Microsoft inside Microsoft is always kind of an underdog thing.

I was born. When I was 23 I started telling jokes. Then I started going on television and doing films. That’s still what I am doing. The end.

If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.

I wouldn’t put myself forward to do a film like ‚Changeling‘ if I thought I couldn’t pull people into a story because of all the other ways people see me.

All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent.

Humans have a knack for choosing precisely the things that are worst for them.

The thing about delirium is you think it’s great, but it actually isn’t.

There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.

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

My age is very insignificant to me. I don’t think about it, but the world does. The world likes young people in general.

Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.

When somewhat at a distance, I cannot hear the high tones of instruments, voices. In speaking, it is not surprising that there are people who have never noticed it, for as a rule I am absent-minded, and they account for it in that way.

Who is richer? The man who is seen, but cannot see? Or the man who is not being seen, but can see?