Sometimes we look back and 10 years from now we think, ‚Boy, those were great old days.‘ Well, you know, we’re living in the good old days.

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

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.

In a certain sense the Good is comfortless.

The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

North Americans don’t understand… that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity.

It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.

There’s no one thing that is true. They’re all true.

With mindfulness, you can establish yourself in the present in order to touch the wonders of life that are available in that moment.

You’ve got to invest in the world, you’ve got to read, you’ve got to go to art galleries, you’ve got to find out the names of plants. You’ve got to start to love the world and know about the whole genius of the human race. We’re amazing people.

I thank God I’m in a position where I can pick and choose – there are some roles I don’t play.

I have always been grateful to Colonel Longley. He proved to me that when people in authority take a stand, good can come out of it.

Everywhere I go, the kids call me ‚the book lady.‘ The older I get, the more appreciative I seem to be of the ‚book lady‘ title. It makes me feel more like a legitimate person, not just a singer or an entertainer. But it makes me feel like I’ve done something good with my life and with my success.

Ultimately, a real understanding of history means that we face nothing new under the sun.

It’s different from being 21 and you think there’s endless amount of opportunities. At 33, the ending is much, much closer.

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.

No man is rich enough to buy back his past.

Become aware of your own insufficiency.

I am who I am today because of my mother.

I never listen to ‚Nevermind.‘ I haven’t listened to it since we put it out. That says something.

There are no big problems, there are just a lot of little problems.

For time is the longest distance between two places.

I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness. Heaven knows that John the Baptist was not more eager to get all his fellow sinners into the Jordan than I to baptize all of mine in the beauty of God’s mountains.

You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought.

I had a rat-tail when I was younger. I had this nice Bobby Brown fade, with a rat-tail that was long enough to wrap around my face. I used to chew on the end and bite it.

What is normal? Normal was yesterday. If you lose a leg, one day you’re hopping around on one leg, so you know the difference.

I love being American, and I love family. I love having a family, and I feel so blessed, and I feel like God gave me exactly what I wanted, so now I have to do the right thing in God’s eyes also. Just follow what God wants me to do.

I’m screamingly funny, you know, I really am in the books. And that helps because I’m funnier than a lot of people, I think, and that’s appreciated by young people.

Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.

The U.S.S. George H. W. Bush is a great thing in my life. It’s amazing. A great honor.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Applause is a receipt, not a bill.

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

There is so much that people take for granted.

We see the world not as it is, but as we are.

For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.

To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.

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

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

As I’m traveling around, I meet many small children. And when I look at a small and think how we’ve harmed this beautiful planet since I was that age, I feel a kind of desperation, anger, shame. I don’t know what I feel; I just don’t know what the emotion is.

Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.

There’s a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.

Thirty was so strange for me. I’ve really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.

Artists are losing the choice to use film. People have a love for it – the grain, how it feels, the texture.

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

Study the past, if you would divine the future.

As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.

And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.

We all want progress, but if you’re on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.

Shall I, that have destroyed my Preservers, return home?

It undoubtedly feels nice when you are being appreciated and you get complimented by girls. Who doesn’t like that? Having said that, I don’t take it as any pressure.

We cannot insist only on issues related to abortion, gay marriage and the use of contraceptive methods. The teaching of the church is clear, and I am a son of the church, but it is not necessary to talk about these issues all the time.

Every blessing ignored becomes a curse.

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

A trifle consoles us, for a trifle distresses us.

Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.

Life is precious.

They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve.

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