If you young fellows were wise, the devil couldn’t do anything to you, but since you aren’t wise, you need us who are old.

Life’s tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.

Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.

I’ve never wanted to use my age as a gimmick, as something that would get me ahead of other people. I’ve wanted the music to do that.

It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

That’s what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he’s wise.

To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness.

Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.

Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.

Communism is a religion that is inspired, directed and motivated by the Devil himself who has declared war against Almighty God.

The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.

After many years of great mercy, after tasting of the powers of the world to come, we still are so weak, so foolish; but, oh! when we get away from self to God, there all is truth and purity and holiness, and our heart finds peace, wisdom, completeness, delight, joy, victory.

He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.

When I was 18, I thought that, to be a romantic, you couldn’t live past 30.

You know, there are artists who are 35 and up that still make rap and that still works for them. I don’t know if I want to be that guy.

No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.

Look not at what is contrary to propriety; listen not to what is contrary to propriety; speak not what is contrary to propriety; make no movement which is contrary to propriety.

Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the letters in which it is composed.

An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.

The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.

Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.

I want to – more than anything – to create a moment that people will never forget. Not for me, but for themselves. That’s what I remember about great Super Bowl performances in the past, when you really get lost in the moment with your family.

Adults are obsolete children.

We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

I feel like I just grabbed a big juicy worm with a right sharp hook in the middle of it.

I think there is a lot made out of age, and what age you feel.

Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.

Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.

I’ve 20,000 hours of clinical practice; you’re not naive after the first few thousand. I’ve helped people deal with things that most people can’t imagine.

In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.

All of my friends who have younger siblings who are going to college or high school – my number one piece of advice is: You should learn how to program.

There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.

Satan, the leader or dictator of devils, is the opposite, not of God, but of Michael.

God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.

The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him.

People have different emotional levels. Especially when you’re young.

To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

In memory everything seems to happen to music.

The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life – knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

Fashion is inspired by youth and nostalgia and draws inspiration from the best of the past.

General consultant to mankind.

‚Suffering should not make us bitter people,‘ my mother once said, ‚it should make us better comforters.‘ Young people need to hear this from those who have walked before them, because someday they’ll be walking those same steps, but there may not be anyone following behind.

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

True virtue is life under the direction of reason.

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

Music was an experience, intimately married to your life. You could pay to hear music, but after you did, it was over, gone – a memory.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

Players today moan about the number of games, but when you’re young, you can’t play enough.

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

I’m not afraid to look like a big, hairy, smelly, foreign devil in Tokyo, though I do my best not to, I really do.

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.

The secret to a long marriage is to stay gone.

I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.