Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.

If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Life’s a bit like mountaineering – never look down.

Some people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives they must live.

Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.

When I was 11, the whole world was closed to me. I just felt I was on the outside of the world.

Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering – an image of death.

We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.

For me, money is not my definition of success. Inspiring people is a definition of success.

So many people have this idea: I want to achieve something great or be somebody great. And they neglect the step that leads to greatness. They don’t honor this step at this moment because they have this idea of some future moment where they are going to be great.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

I prefer to praise people and the world rather than criticize them and it.

Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that’s when something snaps up and bites you.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.

We do not know what love is. We know the symptoms of it, the pleasure, the pain, the fear, the anxiety and so on. We try to solve the symptoms, which becomes a wandering in darkness. We spend our days and nights in this, and it is soon over in death.

They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve.

Making a film is like putting out a fire with sieve. There are so many elements, and it gets so complicated.

Music is either sacred or secular. The sacred agrees with its dignity, and here has its greatest effect on life, an effect that remains the same through all ages and epochs. Secular music should be cheerful throughout.

Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.

I think that we have opportunities all around us – sometimes we just don’t recognize them.

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.

That’s been one of my mantras – focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.

I always was a Christian… whatsoever a man thinks in his heart is who he is.

My whole life and my whole career, even through my music, I tell people: let’s unify; let’s show more love.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

It is what a man thinks of himself that really determines his fate.

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.

Without music, life would be a mistake.

I make preparations both to live and to die every day, but with the emphasis on not dying, and on acting as if I was going to carry on living.

I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth.

Some people take defeat and losses a certain way. You see how some fighters take losses.

Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom… in a clarification of life – not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.

Some people focus more on sonics. Some people focus more on story. I focus on both sonics and story, but music sometimes, just music itself, can turn into more of a maths problem. I guess everything in life is a math problem, but it can be more about an empirical route to getting the symmetry that you want, and this vibe, sonically.

It’s useful to go out of this world and see it from the perspective of another one.

I’ve only wanted paper and beautiful colors. It was my dream, and it still is my dream. And books. They’re all I need, and the rest I can do without.

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.

Childhood was very nice. The only thing wrong was that I was so introverted, everything became a big deal… ‚Oh, no, here comes the bus. Where am I gonna sit on the bus?‘

Of my mental cycles, I devote maybe ten percent to business thinking. Business isn’t that complicated. I wouldn’t want to put it on my business card.

The greatest gift is the ability to forget – to forget the bad things and focus on the good.

Life’s too short to hang out with people who aren’t resourceful.

Few people realize that luck is created.

Look at situations from all angles, and you will become more open.

Life is better when people are working, happy, and spending money.

There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor.

Anything you put your mind to and add your imagination into can make your life a lot better and a lot more fun.

People who don’t like my work say that the connections seem too arbitrary. But that’s how life is.

Life isn’t fair, but God is.

There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.

If a man had more than one life, I think a little hanging would not hurt this one; but after he is once dead, we cannot bring him back, no matter how sorry we may be; so the boy shall be pardoned.

Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.

I wasn’t sure of the exact mindset you should have when you go into a Test match. So I probably became too defensive when I played my first Test match. Short balls in one-day cricket, I have never thought of just defending.

Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you. I always was a rich person because money’s not related to happiness.

It’s lack that gives us inspiration. It’s not fullness.