Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.

In time we hate that which we often fear.

Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them.

I have never smuggled anything in my life. Why, then, do I feel an uneasy sense of guilt on approaching a customs barrier?

I have a lot of other stuff to accomplish before I get to kids. Whenever the time is right, I’ll just know. If I had a girl, she’d probably be really rebellious. She would be like a bundle of karma. I would love to bring them up in Barbados.

Intuition and concepts constitute… the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

Being a sex symbol is a heavy load to carry, especially when one is tired, hurt and bewildered.

Meaning and reality were not hidden somewhere behind things, they were in them, in all of them.

An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.

Occasionally, some brother sings very earnestly through his nose, often disturbing those around him, but it does not matter how the voice sounds to the ears of man. What is important is how the heart sounds to the ears of God.

Oh, I can spot a phoney a mile away.

I was always interested in choreography – in making people think and feel something.

I’m an emotional person. Sometimes I can’t help it.

I’m not a marketing person. I don’t ask myself questions. I go by instinct.

The philosophical question before us is, when we make an observation of our track in the past, does the result of our observation become real in the same sense that the final state would be defined if an outside observer were to make the observation?

It is only at the first encounter that a face makes its full impression on us.

We do not see people as they are, but as they appear to us. And these appearances are usually misleading.

Family quarrels are bitter things. They don’t go according to any rules. They’re not like aches or wounds, they’re more like splits in the skin that won’t heal because there’s not enough material.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Do everything as in the eye of another.

Most people wouldn’t know music if it came up and bit them on the ass.

There are very few people who really appreciate my shows. People come to the show and they pay and they enjoy it, but I don’t really think most people really understand what they’ve seen.

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

I really didn’t consider myself happy or unhappy.

Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

Even when a person has all of life’s comforts – good food, good shelter, a companion – he or she can still become unhappy when encountering a tragic situation.

I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.

It is necessary to fall in love… if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway.

The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.

Thinking fragments reality – it cuts it up into conceptual bits and pieces.

We think when God speaks to us, there’s going to be a boom out of Heaven or we’re going to get some chill bumps, but I really believe God’s talking to us all the time. He’s talking to us right in here. I call it our heart, our conscience, but it’s the Holy Spirit talking to us.

People do dismiss ambient music, don’t they? They call it ‚easy listening,‘ as if to suggest that it should be hard to listen to.

Judgements prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances.

Yes, it is one of my ultimate aims – it is the ultimate sense of football: to make the people happy, to let them live some emotions that you usually can’t get.

There is a boundary to men’s passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.

When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely – the mind being your heart, your nerves, your ears – when you give your whole attention to it.

I think women love very hard. We love men. We just love with everything we have. And sometimes, I don’t know that that love is met with the type of dignity that we wish it would be met with.

It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.

The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it’s their fault.

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.

Of all the senses, sight must be the most delightful.

The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament and heart.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence.

Everyone has been in love, at some point or another.

In memory everything seems to happen to music.

I think there is a lot made out of age, and what age you feel.

Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.

It’s with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.

Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.

False face must hide what the false heart doth know.

What really raises one’s indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering.

People always say when they meet me that I’m not what they expect. I assume they think I’m this super dark and depressing guy, but I like to channel all of those emotions into my work.

In my opinion, there is no aspect of reality beyond the reach of the human mind.

I know now that there is no one thing that is true – it is all true.

The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.

Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.

There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.

There’s nothing better than having a baby. I’ve always loved children. I used to work summers at the YMCA and be in charge of, like, 30 preschool kids. I knew that when I had a child, I’d be overwhelmed, and it’s true… I can’t tell you how much my attitude has changed since we’ve got Frances. Holding my baby is the best drug in the world.