Some people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives they must live.

Life is a series of commas, not periods.

It doesn’t matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire.

I was born during the war and grew up in a time of rationing. We didn’t have anything. It’s influenced the way I look at the world.

The American people have not become heartless.

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

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

My life as a child did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.

It is impossible to experience one’s death objectively and still carry a tune.

There are folks who now know black families – like the Johnsons on ‚Black-ish‘ or the folks on ‚Modern Family.‘ They become part of who you are. You share their pains. You understand their fears. They make you laugh, and they change how you see the world.

If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not.

A stair not worn hollow by footsteps is, regarded from its own point of view, only a boring something made of wood.

Never find fault with the absent.

Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.

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.

However my parents – both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension.

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

As a musician and a songwriter, it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in your point of view. But it is usually an empathetic nature that gets you going in the first place.

I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

In terms of doing work and in terms of learning and evolving as a person, you just grow more when you get more people’s perspectives… I really try and live the mission of the company and… keep everything else in my life extremely simple.

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.

Old men are dangerous: it doesn’t matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength.

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

Human life is far more important than just getting to the top of a mountain.

I think that as you grow up, as you get older, we can’t get bitter, we can’t get jaded.

See things from the boy’s point of view.

Our life is what our thoughts make it.

For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.

For so many people, television and movies may be the only way they understand people who aren’t like them.

To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.

I walk every day, and I look at the mountains and the fields and the small city, and I say: ‚Oh my God, what a blessing.‘ Then you realise it’s important to put it in a context beyond this woman, this man, this city, this country, this universe.

The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.

No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.

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

A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.

When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.

Listen with the intent to understand, not the intent to reply.

People only see what they are prepared to see.

Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.

A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.

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

It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.

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

One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him.

When I was a boy we didn’t wake up with Vietnam and have Cyprus for lunch and the Congo for dinner.

Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.

The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

If you’re in trouble, or hurt or need – go to the poor people. They’re the only ones that’ll help – the only ones.

We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure… than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.