People see things differently and remember things differently. It’s why if somebody robs a liquor store and there are four witnesses they’ll often disagree.

I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

I don’t know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope.

I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.

To the women and children, T stands for tender. To the bad guys and thugs, it stands for tough.

How people themselves perceive what they are doing is not a question that interests me.

Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.

Nothing fortifies scepticism more than the fact that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong.

I don’t know if I particularly want to be remembered for anything. I personally do not think I’m a great gift to the world. I’ve been very fortunate.

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.

For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.

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.

In a certain sense the Good is comfortless.

I think the American people, with some justification, think that most politicians live in la-la land.

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.

I do not, in fact, use many puns. Certainly there are far fewer than people believe. But I suspect the ones I do occasionally use tend to hang around in people’s memories for a while.

Maybe I should say that memory interests me a great deal, because I think we all tell stories of our lives to ourselves as well as to other people. Well, women do, anyway. Women do this a lot. And I think when men get older, they do this too, but maybe in slightly different terms.

Next to the young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish.

I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.

The worst times were the years I was alone. The image to the public entering the courtroom was eight men, of a certain size, and then this little woman sitting to the side. That was not a good image for the public to see.

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

Whether or not I like a piece of data has very little bearing on whether or not I am likely to accept it.

Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities.

Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.

Life is grim, and we don’t have to be grim all the time.

Beauty is also submitted to the taste of time, so a beautiful woman from the Belle Epoch is not exactly the perfect beauty of today, so beauty is something that changes with time.

I don’t mind making jokes, but I don’t want to look like one.

I’ve got a terrible memory; it’s probably because I’m always concentrating on what I’m doing now.

There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

I wouldn’t put myself forward to do a film like ‚Changeling‘ if I thought I couldn’t pull people into a story because of all the other ways people see me.

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.

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.

Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.

If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person’s point of view and see things from that person’s angle as well as from your own.

Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true.

Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.

Sometimes I get the start of a story from a memory, an anecdote, but that gets lost and is usually unrecognizable in the final story.

I don’t think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change.

Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.

Too many people measure how successful they are by how much money they make or the people that they associate with. In my opinion, true success should be measured by how happy you are.

We should not say that one man’s hour is worth another man’s hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time’s carcass.

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.

I don’t look at a man who’s expert in one area as a specialist. I look at him as a rookie in ten other areas.

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.

An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.

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.

Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world.

This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.

I never admire another’s fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.

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

Yeah, I did see where the people dissing me were coming from. But, it’s like, anything that happened in the past between black and white, I can’t really speak on it, because I wasn’t there. I don’t feel like me being born the color I am makes me any less of a person.

God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.

I get to hear the really good or the really bad things in the press, but I don’t read it. I can afford to say that because public opinion does not drive U2’s audience.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

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.

I guess it’s flattering that everyone believed I was those characters, but it also is dehumanizing.

An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight… the truly wise person is colorblind.

You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

There is no object so large but that at a great distance from the eye it does not appear smaller than a smaller object near.

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