Reality simply consists of different points of view.

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

What people see on court is another side of me; it’s not me.

It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.

When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.

Yesterday’s weirdness is tomorrow’s reason why.

See, when you drive home today, you’ve got a big windshield on the front of your car. And you’ve got a little bitty rearview mirror. And the reason the windshield is so large and the rearview mirror is so small is because what’s happened in your past is not near as important as what’s in your future.

Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.

In too many communities, too many young men of color are left behind and seen only as objects of fear. Through initiatives like My Brother’s Keeper, I’m personally committed to changing both perception and reality.

When you have kids, you see life through different eyes. You feel love more deeply and are maybe a little more compassionate. It’s inevitable that that would make its way into your songwriting.

For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that – is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

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

There is so much that people take for granted.

Not everyone can see the truth, but he can be it.

I was a peripheral visionary. I could see the future, but only way off to the side.

The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.

Do everything as in the eye of another.

There’s no reality except the one contained within us. That’s why so many people live an unreal life. They take images outside them for reality and never allow the world within them to assert itself.

There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men.

There is always another way to say the same thing that doesn’t look at all like the way you said it before. I don’t know what the reason for this is. I think it is somehow a representation of the simplicity of nature.

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.

If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.

You are the universe, you aren’t in the universe.

I think it’s a very good thing to leave your country and look at it from afar.

Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.

Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.

First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.

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

Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.

It is the greatest of all advantages to enjoy no advantage at all.

A man’s only as old as the woman he feels.

It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.

Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin.

What’s real freedom? Real freedom is being able to not have my way and still be just as happy as if I did.

Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them.

There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.

The divisions of Perspective are 3, as used in drawing; of these, the first includes the diminution in size of opaque objects; the second treats of the diminution and loss of outline in such opaque objects; the third, of the diminution and loss of colour at long distances.

Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.

A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view.

Too much of what is called ‚education‘ is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.

If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn’t swim.

Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion.

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.

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

It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.

They say somebody’s ‚street smart.‘ I feel like, if I got intelligence, it’s just a country smart.

If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly by the hand, before I mix with other people; otherwise they would think my mind rather queer.

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

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That’s relativity.

Being ‚contented‘ ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position.

Oh my God – this is scary and sad all at the same time. I literally dream about buying my own groceries. Swear to God. Because it is something that is real and normal.

So let’s be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious, and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we are doing every day, only in a different way.

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

If you see everything from the point of view of women being victims in some way, you don’t see the wood for the trees. It is better to be a person than a woman.

Every wall is a door.

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.