My experience is listen, see, feel – and then think about what you change.

Getting in and out of the car with the halo takes a bit of experience. I struggled initially, but after a few trial runs I was fine.

The Italians and Spanish, the Chinese and Vietnamese see food as part of a larger, more essential and pleasurable part of daily life. Not as an experience to be collected or bragged about – or as a ritual like filling up a car – but as something else that gives pleasure, like sex or music, or a good nap in the afternoon.

I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.

I let people fill in the blanks on their own. If they want to think about their ex, that’s fine. If they want to think about maybe who one of my exes is, then that’s fine. And it might not be right, because I’m the only one who knows what these songs are really about. It’s the one shred of privacy I have in the matter.

The status quo sucks.

I’ve done auditions where the casting director is taking the paper out of my hand in the middle of reading.

Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.

Money does not change people, people change.

A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.

Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‚What are you doing for others?‘

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.

For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.

Every man’s memory is his private literature.

I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.

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

I’ve written all my songs on every single one of my records, and that’s what’s been fun about looking back.

What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.

So I’ve seen life as one long learning process. And if I see – you know, if I fly on somebody else’s airline and find the experience is not a pleasant one, which it wasn’t in – 21 years ago, then I’d think, well, you know, maybe I can create the kind of airline that I’d like to fly on.

We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us.

No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.

San Francisco is gone. Nothing remains of it but memories.

Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe.

The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.

When you write your first book aged 25 or so, you have 25 years of experience, albeit much of it juvenile experience. The second book comes after an extra year sitting in bookshops. Pretty soon, you begin to run on empty.

Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.

They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.

A revolution is not a bed of roses.

I think 9/11 affected everybody in one way or another.

No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.

A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.

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.

If it’s all instruction, you get annoyed with it and bored, and you stop reading. If it’s all entertainment, you read it quite quickly, your heart going pitty-pat, pitty-pat. But when you finish, that’s it. You’re not going to think about it much afterward, apart from the odd nightmare. You’re not going to read that book again.

The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.

When I look back on what I did for the Left, I’m in a small way quite proud of some of it – I only wish I’d done more.

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

The pause between the errors and trials of the day and the hopes of the night.

At the outset, I want to say that the suggestion that the struggle in South Africa is under the influence of foreigners or communists is wholly incorrect. I have done whatever I did because of my experience in South Africa and my own proudly felt African background, and not because of what any outsider might have said.

Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.

As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.

Because of my wrestling background, nothing a director can throw at me on a set can faze me.

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.

The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Whoever will be born must destroy a world.

I write for myself things that I’ve gone through.

Death means change our clothes. Clothes become old, then time to come change. So this body become old, and then time come, take young body.

The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.

Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.

To the people I forgot, you weren’t on my mind for some reason and you probably don’t deserve any thanks anyway.

Arafat’s departure has created an awesome opportunity.

But men must know, that in this theatre of man’s life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.

Study the past, if you would divine the future.

Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself. But mankind wasn’t always so lucky. Less than a century ago, men and women did not have easy access to the puzzle boxes within them.

Since the beginning, it was just the same. The only difference, the crowds are bigger now.

There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.

I’m living in the present, thinking about the past, hoping for the future.

Eight years involved with the nuclear industry have taught me that when nothing can possible go wrong and every avenue has been covered, then is the time to buy a house on the next continent.

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?

For 25 years countless people have come to the U.N. climate conferences begging our world leaders to stop emissions and clearly that has not worked as emissions are continuing to rise. So I will not beg the world leaders to care for our future. I will instead let them know change is coming whether they like it or not.