The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.

Death is not the worst that can happen to men.

Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.

The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent.

So thoroughly and sincerely are we compelled to live, reverencing our life, and denying the possibility of change. This is the only way, we say; but there are as many ways as there can be drawn radii from one centre. All change is a miracle to contemplate; but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant.

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

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

In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.

I am who I am and I say what I think. I’m not putting a face on for the record.

The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.

Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.

The bottom line on the Hyde Amendment is that it is directly, in effect, targeting poor women and women who don’t have money.

Honesty is the best policy – when there is money in it.

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.

The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in.

As a kid, I got three meals a day. Oatmeal, miss-a-meal and no meal.

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.

I stand by all the misstatements that I’ve made.

Say there’s a white kid who lives in a nice home, goes to an all-white school, and is pretty much having everything handed to him on a platter – for him to pick up a rap tape is incredible to me, because what that’s saying is that he’s living a fantasy life of rebellion.

A lot of people have it a lot worse than you do.

‚Some Kind Of Monster‘ is such a nightmare for any musician to watch because you’re watching a band be honest to each other. Not a good idea, man!

Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is impossible to foresee this, it is impossible to be warned.

Who is richer? The man who is seen, but cannot see? Or the man who is not being seen, but can see?

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.

You lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money, and I certainly had that experience.

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.

Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.

We identify in our experience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us.

I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Success and failure are equally disastrous.

Capitalism knows only one color: that color is green; all else is necessarily subservient to it, hence, race, gender and ethnicity cannot be considered within it.

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

There are definitely elements of experience and stuff that someone who’s my age wouldn’t have. But there are also things that I can do that other people wouldn’t necessarily be able to.

Our experience of any painting is always the latest line in a long conversation we’ve been having with painting. There’s no way of looking at art as though you hadn’t seen art before.

One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.

I’ve been actually really very pleased to see how much awareness was raised around bullying, and how deeply it affects everyone. You know, you don’t have to be the loser kid in high school to be bullied. Bullying and being picked on comes in so many different forms.

A child thinks 20 shillings and 20 years can scarce ever be spent.

I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.

Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.

Capitalism does not permit an even flow of economic resources. With this system, a small privileged few are rich beyond conscience, and almost all others are doomed to be poor at some level. That’s the way the system works. And since we know that the system will not change the rules, we are going to have to change the system.

It’s so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.

As you get older, time speeds up but life slows down.

It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.

There is no room for military people, including our veterans, to see themselves as victims, even if so many of our countrymen are prone to relish that role.

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.

Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

It’s possible – you can never know – that the universe exists only for me. If so, it’s sure going well for me, I must admit.

A fool is wise in his eyes.

George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.

It’s God’s will for you to live in prosperity instead of poverty. It’s God’s will for you to pay your bills and not be in debt.

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

When you go to war as a boy, you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed, not you… Then, when you are badly wounded the first time, you lose that illusion, and you know it can happen to you.

This administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty.

Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.

I can be almost terminally grief-stricken because things are so dire, but at the same time, there’s a real lightheartedness about just the recoverability of life, of how things change, how they’re not the same, ever again.

In the land of my birth I cannot vote, whereas a young person of eighteen can vote. And why? Because he or she possesses that wonderful biological attribute – a white skin.

Oil has become the principal wealth in the hands of the great Yankee transnationals; through this energy source, they had an instrument that considerably expanded their political power in the world.

In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.