I’ve found men are less likely to let petty things annoy them.

A stair not worn hollow by footsteps is, regarded from its own point of view, only a boring something made of wood.

There are folks who now know black families – like the Johnsons on ‚Black-ish‘ or the folks on ‚Modern Family.‘ They become part of who you are. You share their pains. You understand their fears. They make you laugh, and they change how you see the world.

If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets.

The minority is sometimes right; the majority always wrong.

U2 is an original species… there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.

I’m not confused. I’m just well mixed.

Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.

History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.

What is history but a fable agreed upon?

Our experience of any painting is always the latest line in a long conversation we’ve been having with painting. There’s no way of looking at art as though you hadn’t seen art before.

Most people don’t grow up. It’s too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older. That’s the truth of it. They honor their credit cards, they find parking spaces, they marry, they have the nerve to have children, but they don’t grow up.

Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.

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.

Everybody, to some extent, manipulates. Even children learn to cry when they want something. There are all kinds of subtle things we do to get others to follow our lead, not bother us, and so on.

Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them.

A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer’s hand.

There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.

It’s with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

I never think about myself as an artist working in this time. I think about it in macro.

I’ve never been reckless – it’s always calculated. I’m mischievous, but I’m calculated.

There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or which finds us first. We are always ripe and ready to be taken.

She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel.

The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.

Money can’t buy life.

It’s a funny old world.

Well, it’s looks like I’ve a love-hate thing going on with Monaco.

It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one’s children will become than for the children one’s ‚mature‘ critics often are.

Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.

Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.

In the egoic state, your sense of self, your identity, is derived from your thinking mind – in other words, what your mind tells you about yourself: the storyline of you, the memories, the expectations, all the thoughts that go through your head continuously and the emotions that reflect those thoughts. All those things make up your sense of self.

So when these people sell out, even though they get fabulously rich, they’re gypping themselves out of one of the potentially most rewarding experiences of their unfolding lives. Without it, they may never know their values or how to keep their newfound wealth in perspective.

This isn’t life in the fast lane, it’s life in the oncoming traffic.

From my perspective, I absolutely believe in a greater spiritual power, far greater than I am, from which I have derived strength in moments of sadness or fear. That’s what I believe, and it was very, very strong in the forest.

What air is to the body, to feel understood is to the heart.

One of the most terrible feelings in the world is knowing that someone else doesn’t like you. Especially when you don’t know what you’ve done to deserve it.

Everything is funny, as long as it’s happening to somebody else.

If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.

Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.

I don’t like it when people who are young act like they’re 40. That’s taking too much on. Putting up a shield and trying to act like you’re so mature or whatever – I don’t try to act mature. Some people might say I’m mature for my age, but it’s not something I’m trying to do, you know? I’m just me.

How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.

What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things; it is rather not finding them in the familiar place.

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.

The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.

The way up and the way down are one and the same.

All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.

On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.

The big question about how people behave is whether they’ve got an Inner Scorecard or an Outer Scorecard. It helps if you can be satisfied with an Inner Scorecard.

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

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

When you are young, you cannot imagine being disabled. You imagine you would conquer it somehow. As I’ve got older, I can imagine it; I can see how life narrows in. I feel compassion for my mother now.

Men are like lions. We hunt.

Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and rightly.

Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

Songs for me are like a message in a bottle. You send them out to the world, and maybe the person who you feel that way about will hear about it someday.

Comedians are sociologists. We’re pointing out stuff that the general public doesn’t even stop to think about, looking at life in slow-motion and questioning everything we see.

So much of what we do every single day is the result of habits that we have formed over time.