The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new at all.

I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.

Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people.

There’s no one way to be creative. Any old way will work.

I like someone who is a little crazy but coming from a good place. I think scars are sexy because it means you made a mistake that led to a mess.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.

He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.

I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future.

One hearty laugh together will bring enemies into a closer communion of heart than hours spent on both sides in inward wrestling with the mental demon of uncharitable feeling.

Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others.

I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.

Today, I’d like to talk to Bob Marley. I’d just like to ask him what was his method. Bob is one of the greatest songwriters ever. I don’t know if people understand how powerful his songs are and the simplicity and genius behind them, from ‚Redemption Song‘ to ‚Is This Love?‘ and ‚I Shot the Sheriff.‘

I don’t like people going behind my back.

When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

I’m such a good lover because I practice a lot on my own.

I try to use my experience and the fact that I grew up in the ghetto – I tell people you don’t have to rob or steal to get out of the ghetto.

We want to answer this classical question, who am I? So I think that most of our works are for art, or whatever we do, including science or religion, tried to answer that question.

What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.

Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

When you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence. How can you love if you are not there?

That is what fame is, isn’t it? To get the world to fall in love with you.

The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

Thanks to my reading, I have never been caught flat-footed by any situation, never at a loss for how any problem has been addressed… It doesn’t give me all the answers, but it lights what is often a dark path ahead.

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.

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

When I found somebody who I fell in love with, it made me feel different than I felt the rest of the day. It was electrifying. That’s what inspired the ‚Off to the Races‘ melodies. That’s one of the times when you’re feeling electrified by someone else and they make you happy to be alive.

My mum passing away wasn’t funny, but that funeral and what I went through, the things that happened, looking back at it, there were funny moments. You have to be strong enough to look back at it, to sit and assess the situation.

In search of my mother’s garden, I found my own.

I seated ugliness on my knee, and almost immediately grew tired of it.

I no have education. I have inspiration. If I was educated, I would be a damn fool.

So vast is art, so narrow human wit.

When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that’s when I think life is over.

Throughout my years in business, I discovered something. I would always ask why you do things. The answers that I would invariably get are: ‚Oh, that’s just the way things are done around here.‘ Nobody knows why they do what they do. Nobody thinks very deeply about things in business.

Sometimes, if you begin to sing in a halfhearted mood, you can sing yourself up the ladder. Singing will often make the heart rise.

We may have our private opinions but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?

Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall.

The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.

Here’s what I’ve learned about deal-breakers. If you have enough natural chemistry with someone, you overlook every single thing that you said would break the deal.

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.

I suppose for me as an artist it wasn’t always just about expressing my work; I really wanted, more than anything else, to contribute in some way to the culture that I was living in. It just seemed like a challenge to move it a little bit towards the way I thought it might be interesting to go.

We have observed that, in society and the world in which we live, selfishness has increased more than love for others, and that men of good will must work, each with his own strengths and expertise, to ensure that love for others increases until it is equal and possibly exceeds love for oneself.

Olympics for me is love, peace, united.

Steven Spielberg was my childhood hero.

Love is the capacity to take care, to protect, to nourish.

I’ve had two cancer bouts in my years on the Court, and the first one, Justice O’Connor told me, ‚Now, you do the chemotherapy on Friday because you’ll get over it during the weekend and you can be back in court on Monday.‘

I have a family, loving aunts, and a good home. No, on the surface I seem to have everything except my one true friend. All I think about when I’m with friends is having a good time. I can’t bring myself to talk about anything but ordinary everyday things. We don’t seem to be able to get any closer, and that’s the problem.

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne’er loved them.

Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book, and does.

We can improve our relationships with others by leaps and bounds if we become encouragers instead of critics.

Every picture has its own demands, and every picture stimulates something within you to tell it a certain way. I don’t know what that is; I don’t think too much about that.

It has been hard for me to find it, but I have found love.

I don’t eat with beautiful women alone.

Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.