The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery.

Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.

It may be the part of a friend to rebuke a friend’s folly.

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

Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.

An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.

My son complains about headaches. I tell him all the time, when you get out of bed, it’s feet first!

The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed.

My aim is to make the poor look rich and the rich look poor.

We can never learn too much of His will towards us, too much of His messages and His advice. The Bible is His word and its study gives at once the foundation for our faith and an inspiration to battle onward in the fight against the tempter.

Never give a sword to a man who can’t dance.

The foolish man conceives the idea of ‚self.‘ The wise man sees there is no ground on which to build the idea of ‚self;‘ thus, he has a right conception of the world and well concludes that all compounds amassed by sorrow will be dissolved again, but the truth will remain.

Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.

We tend to mistake music for the physical object.

When in doubt, don’t.

It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.

I get to hear the really good or the really bad things in the press, but I don’t read it. I can afford to say that because public opinion does not drive U2’s audience.

Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.

There is a soak-the-rich attitude in the air, a feeling that if you have a lot of money you must have got it by some ghastly means. I can quite happily say there was never any family money. All the money we got was mine, just from writing books.

Seeing is not always believing.

Even in the 1950s, President Eisenhower was concerned about what he called a campaign of hatred of the U.S. in the Arab world, because of the perception on the Arab street that it supported harsh and oppressive regimes to take their oil.

In those days he was wiser than he is now; he used to frequently take my advice.

Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.

Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.

I remember talking with Arcade Fire after their first record, when they were getting all kinds of offers from major labels, and I don’t think I gave them any advice. They survived that whole onslaught pretty well anyway without me.

Reality simply consists of different points of view.

If you’re in this business and you are scared, then you better do something else.

The perception of beauty is a moral test.

A lot of people think I’m a comedian.

Some men do think I’m a psycho bunny-boiler.

There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

I haven’t been faithful to my own advice in the past. I will in the future.

All of my friends who have younger siblings who are going to college or high school – my number one piece of advice is: You should learn how to program.

We have an obligation to help people that cannot help themselves. The mentally retarded, the physically retarded, et cetera.

The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

I think Mick Jagger would be astounded and amazed if he realized that to many people he is not a sex symbol, but a mother image.

In memory everything seems to happen to music.

The best advice comes from people who don’t give advice.

Is the babe young? When I behold it, it seems more venerable than the oldest man.

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

Don’t run if you can walk. Don’t walk if you can stand. Don’t stand if you can sit. Don’t sit if you can lie down.

I confused things with their names: that is belief.

It is really funny when people say you’d be obvious for a great villain.

Every time I plant a seed, He say kill it before it grow, he say kill it before they grow.

A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.

You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.

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

Few people have the imagination for reality.

When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.

Changes are not unusual – I mean, most movies, when they release them, they make changes. But somehow, when I make the slightest change, everybody thinks it’s the end of the world.

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

People who say they don’t care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don’t care what people think.

If one plays good music, people don’t listen and if one plays bad music people don’t talk.

The eyes are more exact witnesses than the ears.