It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.

I don’t concern myself with award. I’d been to the party enough times to know it really didn’t matter.

We can’t have, like, willy-nilly proliferation of fake news. That’s crazy. You can’t have more types of fake news than real news. That’s allowing public deception to go unchecked. That’s crazy.

Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.

The eye sees what it brings the power to see.

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.

On a bike, being just slightly above pedestrian and car eye level, one gets a perfect view of the goings-on in one’s own town.

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.

I’m too busy acting like I’m not Naive. I’ve seen it all, I was here first.

Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.

Most of our lives aren’t that exciting, but the drama is still going on in the small details.

Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

All my life I’ve looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.

To understand the nature of the people one must be a prince, and to understand the nature of the prince, one must be of the people.

Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.

Life is grim, and we don’t have to be grim all the time.

No such thing as a man willing to be honest – that would be like a blind man willing to see.

It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more.

If I make music and people hate it, you know, whatever. I’ll die someday, and one day, they will too.

Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.

I’d rather be optimistic and wrong than pessimistic and right.

Don’t be afraid to see what you see.

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

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.

For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.

When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people.

I have never thought it necessary to patronize the American people.

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.

Read about history, and you become aware that nothing starts with us.

A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.

Life is our dictionary.

I don’t feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.

No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned… a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.

A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.

The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.

So many people are looking at what’s wrong, and I try to encourage them to look at what’s right in their life. A lot of people have it a lot worse than you do.

If you are giving a graduate course you don’t try to impress the students with oratory, you try to challenge them, get them to question you.

Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing but pure misery there never is any recourse to the mention of it.

Do not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees are cut down while crooked ones are left standing.

The only passion that guides me is for the truth… I look at everything from this point of view.

The two things in the world we all share in this world are laughter and pain. We’ve all got problems. The levels of those problems vary, but we’ve all got problems. When you can take things that are painful and make them funny, that’s a gift – to you and your audience.

The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.

Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you’re going to live your life.

There is always an easy solution to every problem – neat, plausible, and wrong.

Some minds remain open long enough for the truth not only to enter but to pass on through by way of a ready exit without pausing anywhere along the route.

When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favour of the belief which he finds in himself.

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

A man’s as miserable as he thinks he is.

What is history but a fable agreed upon?

It’s not morbid to talk about death. Most people don’t worry about death, they worry about a bad death.

One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.

I know now that there is no one thing that is true – it is all true.

Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return.

Older people sit down and ask, ‚What is it?‘ but the boy asks, ‚What can I do with it?‘.

I do not pretend to start with precise questions. I do not think you can start with anything precise. You have to achieve such precision as you can, as you go along.

Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, ‚This is a misfortune‘ but ‚To bear this worthily is good fortune.‘

I’ve watched a lot of people who became famous who completely change and I think it’s because they tend to believe all the hype that’s out there. I don’t think there’s that much hype about me.

Old men are dangerous: it doesn’t matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.

All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.