The eyes are more exact witnesses than the ears.

If you look at me close enough, there’s a small resemblance to a chicken nugget. I don’t know if it’s my skin texture or my hair, but the resemblance is definitely there.

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!

There is a rollicking kindness that looks like malice.

No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.

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

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

I’m not really concerned with portraying this tough warrior – I mean, that’s part of my job and I take that very seriously. But I don’t have anything to hide, and I’m not concerned with what people think.

Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it’s really how it works.

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

People see things differently and remember things differently. It’s why if somebody robs a liquor store and there are four witnesses they’ll often disagree.

You have to see and smell and feel the circumstances of people to really understand them.

I had no portrait, now, but am small, like the wren; and my hair is bold, like the chestnut bur; and my eyes, like the sherry in the glass, that the guest leaves.

Kids are watching us. I experience it every single day. They hang on my every word, what I wear, what I say.

The Paralympic Games is about transforming our perception of the world.

I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird.

Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate… but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins.

Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.

Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.

It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.

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

It’s very difficult for the American people to believe that our government, one of the richest on Earth, is also one of the stingiest on Earth.

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.

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.

Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.

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

There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.

I would impress upon your minds the fact that if you want to do a man justice, you should believe what a man says himself rather than what people say he says.

There’s no reality except the one contained within us. That’s why so many people live an unreal life. They take images outside them for reality and never allow the world within them to assert itself.

I mean, if you didn’t get it or if you didn’t feel like you enjoyed it, sometimes that experience can change.

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.

It is necessary to look at the results of observation objectively, because you, the experimenter, might like one result better than another.

People think I’m a celebrity. I’m not a celebrity.

Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it ‚the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.‘ The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of ‚Artist.‘

I think it’s a myth that American public or any other public is so stupid that they need to be constantly pricked.

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

I’m fascinated by the fact that we can’t grasp anything about time.

If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.

Sometimes cameras and television are good to people and sometimes they aren’t. I don’t know if its the way you say it, or how you look.

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

The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.

I don’t notice anybody unless they look great, and every now and again they do, and they are usually 70.

If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame.

The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.

The eyes like sentinel occupy the highest place in the body.

Memories are thoughts that arise. They’re not realities. Only when you believe that they are real, then they have the power over you. But when you realize it’s just another thought arising about the past, then you can have a spacious relationship with that thought. The thought no longer has you in its grip.

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

It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.

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.

You are the sum total of everything you’ve ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot – it’s all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.

People’s minds are changed through observation and not through argument.

Science is nothing but perception.

Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect.

How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.

Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe.

All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is.

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

If you change and adapt your persona, you are seen as inauthentic; if you stay the angry young man, you fade from attention or seem tiresome.

An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.

The more you observe politics, the more you’ve got to admit that each party is worse than the other.

Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it?