On the other hand, you have different fingers.

Creation is a sustained period of bliss, even though the subject can still be very sad. Because there’s the triumph of coming through and understanding that you have, and that you did it the way only you could do it. You didn’t do it the way somebody told you to do it.

I’m super self-critical, which I think is good, because then I get exactly what I want. I’m critical of other people, too – I try not to be, though.

I think that all things, in their way, reflect heavenly truth, the imagination not least.

When one’s expectations are reduced to zero, one really appreciates everything one does have.

At first when I heard about climate change, I was a climate denier. I didn’t think it was happening. Because if there really was an existential crisis like that, that would threaten our civilisation, we wouldn’t be focusing on anything else. That would be our first priority. So I didn’t understand how that added up.

If your culture doesn’t like geeks, you are in real trouble.

I’m convinced that no one can amount to a damn in the arts if he becomes sweetly reasonable, seeing all sides of a picture, forgiving all sins.

There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.

All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.

I love it when Muslims go to war with each other, as I do when the Christians do, because it shows there’s no such thing as the Christian world and the Islamic world. That’s all crap.

The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.

When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man’s life.

I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.

America is known as a country that welcomes people to its shores. All kinds of people. The image of the Statue of Liberty with Emma Lazarus‘ famous poem. She lifts her lamp and welcomes people to the golden shore, where they will not experience prejudice because of the color of their skin, the religious faith that they follow.

Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.

National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right.

It’s not that I’m afraid to die. I just don’t want to be there when it happens.

Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.

It’s not the destination that matters. It’s the change of scene.

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?

I’m afraid that people who know me as I usually am will discover I have another side, a better and finer side. I’m afraid they’ll mock me, think I’m ridiculous and sentimental and not take me seriously. I’m used to not being taken seriously, but only the ‚light-hearted‘ Anne is used to it and can put up with it; the ‚deeper‘ Anne is too weak.

If it’s a penny for your thoughts and you put in your two cents worth, then someone, somewhere is making a penny.

The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.

The fellow that can only see a week ahead is always the popular fellow, for he is looking with the crowd. But the one that can see years ahead, he has a telescope but he can’t make anybody believe that he has it.

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.

I never think of myself as an icon. What is in other people’s minds is not in my mind. I just do my thing.

It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

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

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost.

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

History is more or less bunk.

I know a lot of athletes and models are written off as just bodies. I never felt used for my body.

Yes, some people say to me you’re too skinny, but never a skinny person says that to me, only people who could lose a few pounds say that.

I’m astounded by people who want to ‚know‘ the universe when it’s hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.

People in Latin America… love America from afar and emulate America in some ways but also hate a lot of things that America does to them.

Here’s the thing. We do a movie with a predominantly black cast, and it’s put in a category of being a black film. When other movies are done with a predominantly white cast, we don’t call them a white film. I’m trying to remove the stigma off things they call black films.

There is not a liberal America and a conservative America – there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America and latino America and asian America – there’s the United States of America.

Above all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the morning and worry what his neighbors think of him. Being a Jew is no problem here.

The first two games for Churchill, I was so jittery that I didn’t know what to do. I was running more but didn’t know what to do. I’ve no bones accepting the fact that I didn’t know what was happening in the game.

There are many victories worse than a defeat.

Music is one of the most powerful things the world has to offer. No matter what race or religion or nationality or sexual orientation or gender that you are, it has the power to unite us.

When I first went to places where people were suffering from war and persecution, I felt ashamed of my feelings of sadness. I could see more possibilities in my life.

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

The minority is sometimes right; the majority always wrong.

For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.

I’m not concerned with people seeing me in a certain way. Some people see me as a kid, some people see me as an adult. But I’m seriously not going to complain how anybody sees me, as long as they see me.

It’s so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.

SEALs are human beings. We may all have the same haircuts, but we aren’t robots. Some SEALs are great people. Some are not great people. Some have done unspeakably terrible things. You’re dealing with different people, different dreams, different desires.

The true history of my administration will be written 50 years from now, and you and I will not be around to see it.

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

Here’s the thing: every office I’ve run for I was the first to win. First person of color. First woman. First woman of color. Every time.

Read about history, and you become aware that nothing starts with us.

Racial prejudice, anti-Semitism, or hatred of anyone with different beliefs has no place in the human mind or heart.

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.

Few people have the imagination for reality.

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

I kept a diary right after I was born. Day 1: Tired from the move. Day 2: Everyone thinks I’m an idiot.

Right now, when we’re hearing so much disturbing and hateful rhetoric, it is so important to remember that our diversity has been – and will always be – our greatest source of strength and pride here in the United States.

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.