Not only do I not know what’s going on, I wouldn’t know what to do about it if I did.

Remember that life’s big changes rarely give advance warning.

In my experience, many people confuse being cowardly with being nice.

It has not yet become obvious to me that there’s no real problem. I cannot define the real problem; therefore, I suspect there’s no real problem, but I’m not sure there’s no real problem.

Conversion is not my intention. Changing religion is not easy. You may develop some kind of confusion or difficulties.

I will carry on writing, to be sure. But I don’t know if I would want to publish again after Harry Potter.

Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There’s plenty of movement, but you never know if it’s going to be forward, backwards, or sideways.

I got this powdered water – now I don’t know what to add.

When I was young I felt really overwhelmed and confused by the desire not to end up in an office, doing something I didn’t believe in.

I’m a spokesman for myself. It just so happens that there’s a bunch of people that are concerned with what I have to say. I find that frightening at times because I’m just as confused as most people. I don’t have the answers for anything.

It’s hard to speculate what tomorrow may bring.

Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.

The other day I… uh, no, that wasn’t me.

From the time I was a kid, I always knew something was going to happen to me. Didn’t know exactly what.

Do not keep saying to yourself, if you can possibly avoid it, ‚But how can it be like that?‘ because you will get ‚down the drain,‘ into a blind alley from which nobody has yet escaped. Nobody knows how it can be like that.

One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got into my pajamas I’ll never know.

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.

I’m very careful about saying who would and wouldn’t go to heaven. I don’t know.

Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.

We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end.

Being at ease with not knowing is crucial for answers to come to you.

I don’t know what ‚normal‘ means, anyway.

Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don’t let yourself believe it will happen to you.

Our lifelong certainties about the world can be demolished in a single second.

You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.

Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever.

What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed?

We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur.

One can never know for sure what a deserted area looks like.

And no, we don’t know where it will lead. We just know there’s something much bigger than any of us here.

Early on, when I was quite young and going from job to job, I was foolish enough to sometimes speak to my fellow workers: ‚Hey, the boss can come in here at any moment and lay all of us off, just like that, don’t you realize that?‘ They would just look at me. I was posing something that they didn’t want to enter their minds.

In such a porcelain life, one likes to be sure that all is well lest one stumble upon one’s hopes in a pile of broken crockery.

ISIS is not an existential threat to something happening to someone in the United States of America. It’s a serious problem overseas, but it’s confusing and frightening.

What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt?

There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.

Doing what’s right isn’t the problem. It is knowing what’s right.

I really want to love somebody. I do. I just don’t know if it’s possible forever and ever.

Love is the missing factor; there is a lack of affection, of warmth in relationship; and because we lack that love, that tenderness, that generosity, that mercy in relationship, we escape into mass action, which produces further confusion, further misery.

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.

If you can’t convince them, confuse them.

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.

One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end.

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.

There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.

It is not scientifically possible to accurately predict the outcome of an action. To suggest otherwise runs contrary to historical experience and the nature of war.

Most of the time I spend when I get up in the morning is trying to figure out what is going to happen.

Why should I be studying for a future that soon may not exist?

It’s so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.

The action we take and the decisions we make in this decade will have consequences far into this century. If America shows weakness and uncertainty, the world will drift toward tragedy. That will not happen on my watch.

What is imponderable in the world is greater than what we can handle.

You never know with these things when you’re trying something new what can happen. This is all experimental.

Certain though I am – and ever more certain – that I must press on in life as though Christ awaited me at the term of the universe, at the same time I feel no special assurance of the existence of Christ. Believing is not seeing. As much as anyone, I imagine, I walk in the shadows of faith.

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

Life’s short. Anything could happen, and it usually does, so there is no point in sitting around thinking about all the ifs, ands and buts.

Frank and explicit – that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.

Some scientists believe climate change is the cause of unprecedented melting of the North Pole, and that effects these very uncertain weather patterns. I think we should listen to those scientists and experts.

If we have an atom that is in an excited state and so is going to emit a photon, we cannot say when it will emit the photon. It has a certain amplitude to emit the photon at any time, and we can predict only a probability for emission; we cannot predict the future exactly.

As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.

Indecision may or may not be my problem.

My comedy is different every time I do it. I don’t know what the hell I’m doing.

If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.