I’m actually starting to like more and more people who have convictions that are unpopular.

Politics has always been ugly to me, and yet I accept that as a fact of life.

It is a very rare man who does not victimize the helpless.

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.

Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.

Above all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the morning and worry what his neighbors think of him. Being a Jew is no problem here.

Milk is for babies. When you grow up you have to drink beer.

If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.

Nothing endures but change.

If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve.

The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.

The notion that we have even one single veteran living on the streets should be just considered a travesty to all of us.

God doesn’t love me any more or less because I had some work done on my face. You know, I prayed about it a long, long, long, long, long time, because there again, I wouldn’t want to do anything that I felt was going to be offensive to God.

As a leader, you have to have the ability to assimilate new information and understand that there might be a different view.

You cannot share your life with a dog, as I had done in Bournemouth, or a cat, and not know perfectly well that animals have personalities and minds and feelings.

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

Often, little situations trigger enormous reactions. Be there, present for it. Your partner will find it easier to see it in you, and you will find it easier to see it in them.

Don’t tell your problems to people: eighty percent don’t care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.

A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.

Remember that creating a successful marriage is like farming: you have to start over again every morning.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.

Where lipstick is concerned, the important thing is not color, but to accept God’s final word on where your lips end.

This is a wonderful planet, and it is being completely destroyed by people who have too much money and power and no empathy.

I believe everyone should have a broad picture of how the universe operates and our place in it. It is a basic human desire. And it also puts our worries in perspective.

It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.

We tend to mistake music for the physical object.

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.

No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it.

I owe the best of myself to geology, but everything it has taught me tends to turn me away from dead things.

I’ve never thought about songwriting as a weapon. I’ve only thought about it as a way to help me get through love and loss and sadness and loneliness and growing up.

If you have the chance to be exposed to a loving, understanding environment where the seed of compassion, loving kindness, can be watered every day, then you become a more loving person.

Let him that would move the world first move himself.

I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

What one fool can understand, another can.

Millions of people die every day. Everyone’s got to go sometime.

We’re always, by the way, in fundamental physics, always trying to investigate those things in which we don’t understand the conclusions. After we’ve checked them enough, we’re okay.

Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.

Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.

I love trying new things.

For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.

We don’t mature momentarily, but over the long-term.

A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.

Never in any case say I have lost such a thing, but I have returned it. Is your child dead? It is a return. Is your wife dead? It is a return. Are you deprived of your estate? Is not this also a return?

Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.

The presidency has made every man who occupied it, no matter how small, bigger than he was; and no matter how big, not big enough for its demands.

Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do.

There is no education like adversity.

Failure is nature’s plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.

When you have peace in yourself and accept, then you are calm enough to do something, but if you are carried by despair, there is no hope.

The good man is the friend of all living things.

To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts and deep sympathy. With the benefit of historical hindsight we can all see things which we would wish had been done differently or not at all.

What you guys want, I’m for.

I know people said I wasn’t selling out in America, but that was entirely untrue. We sold out all over the world, and every night I looked out into the fans and those front rows that you’re talking about, the tears, the honesty, the inability to not be completely overjoyed because they felt accepted.

You’re dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway.

Learning to live for others isn’t something that just comes naturally to anybody. You have to train yourself to do it.

Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.