It’s a tragedy, in a way, that Americans are brought up to think that they cannot feel for other people and other beings just because they are different. They think they’re different. It’s very limiting.

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

A lot of people don’t like the road, but it’s as natural to me as breathing.

Above all, always be capable of feeling deeply any injustice committed against anyone, anywhere in the world. This is the most beautiful quality in a revolutionary.

I’m not happy all the time, and I wouldn’t want to be because that would make me a shallow person. But I do try to find the good in everybody.

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

I walk every day, and I look at the mountains and the fields and the small city, and I say: ‚Oh my God, what a blessing.‘ Then you realise it’s important to put it in a context beyond this woman, this man, this city, this country, this universe.

Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor – over each other.

My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.

To start with, I love New York… It’s a little bit of the whole world… In New York, the whole world comes to you.

Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

The label ‚liberal‘ or ‚conservative,‘ any – every time I hear that, I think of the great Gilbert and Sullivan song from ‚Iolanthe.‘ It goes, ‚Every gal and every boy that’s born alive is either a little liberal or else a little conservative.‘ What do those labels mean? It depends on whose ox is being gored.

When you’re born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you’re born in America, you get a front row seat.

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God – the rest will be given.

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

We inhabit a universe that is characterized by diversity.

I think that the idea of having a different approach to every single one of my albums is so exciting to me. I never want to make the same record twice. Why do it? What’s the point?

You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.

Part of what confuses people in times of upheaval is that you’re getting so many different points of view and directions and so and so, how to do this and do that. And a lot of it is written in a language that honestly most people cannot understand.

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

Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.

A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.

The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.

There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating – people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.

People don’t want drama 365 days a year. I’m a sense of relief; it’s my job to take your mind off what’s bad for that brief second you’re in the room with me, regardless of shape, race, colour or anything. It brings people together, and it makes me feel good about what I’m doing.

No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone.

Life is a series of commas, not periods.

A person hears only what they understand.

Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.

People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.

My mother told me, ‚Son, nobody else but God knows.‘ And that’s what I’m about – reaching out to the people, crying with them, giving them hope. Visiting the hospital, visiting the kids with cancer, visiting the adults, and stuff like that. That’s what I do.

For, verily, great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you little know it, you will be able to love it only little or not at all.

Peace begins with a smile.

When you show deep empathy toward others, their defensive energy goes down, and positive energy replaces it. That’s when you can get more creative in solving problems.

The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

There is nothing that living things do that cannot be understood from the point of view that they are made of atoms acting according to the laws of physics.

If you can’t read, the only thing you can do is enjoy the pictures, not the whole story. Reading is the key to knowledge. Knowledge is the key to understanding. So read on, young man! Read on, young lady!

I’m very sensitive. I remember, as a kid at school, if someone in the classroom was sad or angry, it could have a great impact on me.

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

God tells us not to judge one another, no matter what anyone’s sexual preferences are or if they’re black, brown or purple.

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors.

People see things differently and remember things differently. It’s why if somebody robs a liquor store and there are four witnesses they’ll often disagree.

There is no such things as ‚best‘ in the world of individuals.

There are many victories worse than a defeat.

The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.

All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.

Everything’s fine today, that is our illusion.

I have a dogmatic certainty: God is in every person’s life. God is in everyone’s life. Even if the life of a person has been a disaster, even if it is destroyed by vices, drugs or anything else – God is in this person’s life. You can – you must – try to seek God in every human life.

Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

Is the babe young? When I behold it, it seems more venerable than the oldest man.

Have you ever thought how humiliating and distressing it was to be placed upon a sphere? For friendship it is a boon never to be able to be further apart than the antipodes. But suppose that you are leaving together to go on and on; it is impossible. To go beyond a certain point is to return to where you began.

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

My readers – and I get 400 emails for a day, my readers normally they say, well, you understand me, and I answer, you do understand me also. We are in the same level.

I have no interest in gender or race or anything like that. But everyone else is kind of, with their calculating – is this the exact right mix? I think that’s – to me it’s anti-comedy. It’s more about PC-nonsense.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.