The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.

The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.

To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn’t everything.

We seem gradually to be groping toward an understanding of the world of subatomic particles, but we really do not know how far we have yet to go in this task.

The glamour of it all! New York! America!

Facts are stubborn things.

My observation is that whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty… it is worse executed by two persons, and scarcely done at all if three or more are employed therein.

Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.

Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.

Today’s scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality.

I can make something magical and wonderful out of nothing.

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.

Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain’t so.

The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.

Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.

There’s a long way to fall when you pretend that you’re so far away from the earth, far away from reality, floating in a bubble that’s protected by fame or success. It’s scary, and it’s the thing I fear the most: to be swallowed up by that bubble. It can be poison to you, fame.

I’ve been doing comedy longer than I haven’t been doing comedy, as I was performing for three years before I even got on ‚The Tonight Show.‘ There’s truly nothing like it; it’s intense and exhilarating, even though it looks so casual.

In fact men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth – often more so, since a superstition is so intangible you cannot get at it to refute it, but truth is a point of view, and so is changeable.

Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think, and they are unable to think because they congenitally lack the equipment to do so, just as they congenitally lack the equipment to fly over the moon.

The bottom line is that everyone thinks differently.

We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.

The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.

My life has been long, and believing that life loves the liver of it, I have dared to try many things, sometimes trembling, but daring still.

Little things affect little minds.

One thing about ‚Star Wars‘ that I’m really proud of is that it expands the imagination. That’s why I like the ‚Star Wars‘ toys.

You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.

In Paris, you’re as far as possible from the land of pleasant smiles.

Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?

I’ll tell you one thing, since I’m married, single people look absolutely ridiculous to me.

I’m really good at sleeping on planes. I mean, I smell jet fuel and I’m out; I’m asleep for takeoff.

I was in Europe and it was at this stage that I fell in love with Americans in uniform. And I continue to have that love affair.

I’ve lived in good climate, and it bores the hell out of me. I like weather rather than climate.

He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.

I actually don’t want a throne at all, because I don’t view myself as a queen; I view myself as one of my fans.

My music definitely comes from a place of experience. Everything connects to a truth.

Every time I come to Europe, I’m just as excited as I was my very first time, which was many, many years ago. I love that part of the world, and I especially love the fans.

If you desire many things, many things will seem few.

Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.

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.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

I don’t think culture is something you can describe.

So I’ve seen life as one long learning process. And if I see – you know, if I fly on somebody else’s airline and find the experience is not a pleasant one, which it wasn’t in – 21 years ago, then I’d think, well, you know, maybe I can create the kind of airline that I’d like to fly on.

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it’s dead for you.

To share the dressing room of club and country with Bhai was an amazing experience. I learnt a lot from him and other senior players like Renedy Singh.

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

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

My relationship with the mountains actually started when I was 16. Every year, a group used to be taken from Auckland Grammar down to the Tangariro National Park for a skiing holiday.

I love driving my car on any highway.

All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.

Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.

We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.

A squirrel dying in front of your house may be more relevant to your interests right now than people dying in Africa.

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

When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.

And I wound up in New Orleans for all those years and it was a great place, really a catalyst creatively.

The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.

He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.

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

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.