See things from the boy’s point of view.

Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others.

Whenever a fellow tells me he’s bipartisan, I know he’s going to vote against me.

People tried to change my concept of what music is. That music is work, but it’s not like that.

I think the word rich is all relative.

There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.

Mediocre theoretical physicists make no progress. They spend all their time understanding other people’s progress.

You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems and suffer and understand, for all that is life.

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

Don’t be afraid to see what you see.

Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which, before their union, were not perceived to have any relation.

Success and failure are equally disastrous.

One likes people much better when they’re battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

A lot of people don’t like the road, but it’s as natural to me as breathing.

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.

In the fight between you and the world, back the world.

If you have enough people sitting around telling you you’re wonderful, then you start believing you’re fabulous, then someone tells you you stink and you believe that too!

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.

A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.

Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace.

The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.

You’re going to die. You’re going to be dead. It could be 20 years, it could be tomorrow, anytime. So am I. I mean, we’re just going to be gone. The world’s going to go on without us. All right now. You do your job in the face of that, and how seriously you take yourself you decide for yourself.

The little man is still a man.

My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.

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

I was ill, and everyone could see it but me.

We misjudge risk if we feel we have some control over it, even if it’s an illusory sense of control.

The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.

I live halfway between reality and theater at all times. And I was born this way.

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.

I have no human feelings.

Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.

The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.

Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.

Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.

It is necessary to help others, not only in our prayers, but in our daily lives. If we find we cannot help others, the least we can do is to desist from harming them.

Our human compassion binds us the one to the other – not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.

Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.

Let a man get up and say, Behold, this is the truth, and instantly I perceive a sandy cat filching a piece of fish in the background. Look, you have forgotten the cat, I say.

There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.

Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

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.

Sitting on a bedroom floor crying is something that makes you feel really alone. If someone’s singing about that feeling, you feel bonded to that person.

You pity the fool because you don’t want to beat up a fool! You know, pity is between sorry and mercy. See, if you pity him, you know, you won’t have to beat him up. So that’s why I say fools, you gotta give another chance because they don’t know no better. That’s why I pity them!

All knowledge or form conception is evoked through the medium of the eye, either in response to disturbances directly received on the retina or to their fainter secondary effects and reverberations. Other sense organs can only call forth feelings which have no reality of existence and of which no conception can be formed.

I’ve never had a divorce, but I’ve seen so many of my friends, my sister, my family go through that stuff, so I try to write for the people that can’t write about it. I take on their sorrow, so I’m able to kind of express it, or their joy.

A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.

Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is impossible to foresee this, it is impossible to be warned.

A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.

Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.

The only passion that guides me is for the truth… I look at everything from this point of view.

When you are an actor, you have to stay inside this world, but when you are with the crew, on the outside, you are in the dirt, working through all the issues. It’s just a different way of working, and I think I preferred it.

Do everything as in the eye of another.

Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.

I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.