Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?

There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.

When I had to make a decision whether or not an activity was appropriate for the Sabbath, I simply asked myself, ‚What sign do I want to give to God?‘ That question made my choices about the Sabbath day crystal clear.

You’d have a hard time finding anything better than Barcelona for food, as far as being a hub. Given a choice between Barcelona and San Sebastian to die in, I’d probably want to die in San Sebastian.

I am never satisfied with myself and that is what keeps me going – I have no post-satisfaction.

Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises.

My heroes don’t have anything special. They have something to tell other people but they don’t know how, so they talk to themselves.

We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.

Being a good husband is like being a good stand-up comic – you need ten years before you can even call yourself a beginner.

To be radical, an empiricism must neither admit into its constructions any element that is not directly experienced, nor exclude from them any element that is directly experienced.

Analysis is like a lobotomy. Who wants to have all their edges shaved off?

Colleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges.

Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.

The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.

I had been told from school onwards that the best definition of a human being was man the tool-maker – yet I had just watched a chimp tool-maker in action. I remember that day as vividly as if it was yesterday.

I had a much better view with the halo than I expected.

We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

We’re always looking over our shoulders, ‚what they will think, what the press will think, what will this one – am I making the right career move?‘ When you’re young you have to do all that to survive, I suppose.

I fear that many a man’s good resolutions only need the ordinary fire of daily life to make them melt away. So, too, with fine professions and the boastings of perfection which abound in this age of shams.

When women kiss it always reminds one of prize fighters shaking hands.

Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.

Madonna and I are very different. Just saying. We’re very different. I wouldn’t make that comparison at all, and I don’t mean to disrespect Madonna: she’s a nice lady, and she’s had a fantastic, huge career – biggest pop star of all time.

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.

Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him.

My life has been one great big joke, a dance that’s walked a song that’s spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.

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.

Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.

Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

When I see myself as an old woman, I just think about being happy. And hopefully, I’ll still be fly.

A lot of the problems I had with fame I was bringing on myself. A lot of self-loathing, a lot of woe-is-me. Now I’m learning to see the positive side of things, instead of, like, ‚I can’t go to Kmart. I can’t take my kids to the haunted house.‘

I’ve done a number of Super Bowl ads. And that is the best advertising of the year. That is when people realize they’re going to be compared directly against other ads.

All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows.

I listen to my old records and I think, ‚How did I ever get on the radio?‘

When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

I will be unhappy if I know I have not accomplished something I should have done that was possible.

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.

In my work and in myself I reflect black people, women and men, as I reflect others. One day even the most self-protective ones will look into the mirror I provide and not be afraid.

At the core, one of my original goals is to redefine what the streets expect.

Going to Southeast Asia for the first time and tasting that spectrum of flavors – that certainly changed my whole palate, the kind of foods I crave. A lot of the dishes I used to love became boring to me.

The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I’m talking about myself very directly.

You have to see and smell and feel the circumstances of people to really understand them.

Buy the ticket, take the ride.

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

The more extensive a man’s knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.

What a wee little part of a person’s life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.

I was awfully curious to find out why I didn’t go insane.

I have trouble reading modern Hebrew. In the 1950s, I could read anything. I don’t know how much experience you’ve had with contemporary Hebrew. It’s quite difficult.

I am proud of having done what I’ve done. Very proud.

There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.

In praise there is more obtrusiveness than in blame.

Sitting idle at home is the most painful experience for a footballer.

Jesus is ideal and wonderful, but you Christians – you are not like him.

A game is like a mirror that allows you to look at yourself.

I am not the humblest person in the world. I admit that.

All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.

But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.

I used to worry about every little thing, trying to figure out every problem. Well, I realize now how foolish that was. I was no more in control of my life than the man on the moon.

I always thought it was wrong for me to take credit for the work that I did. I don’t think that anymore.