The world is before you and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.

I’m an idealist without illusions.

Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.

Whether or not I like a piece of data has very little bearing on whether or not I am likely to accept it.

I have some good friends of my own who happen to be gay, and when it comes to gay, straight, or whatever, I’m for anything life-affirmative. I’m for gay power, straight power, male power, female power; everybody should feel empowered without oppressing anyone who’s different.

You always admire what you really don’t understand.

Music is one of the most powerful things the world has to offer. No matter what race or religion or nationality or sexual orientation or gender that you are, it has the power to unite us.

There is love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look.

Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.

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.

I say, ‚Yeah, Taylor Swift.‘ I think she is a smart, beautiful girl. I think she’s making all the right moves. She’s got a good head on her shoulders. She’s surrounded with wonderful people. Her songs are great. She keeps herself anchored. She knows who she is, and she’s living and standing by that.

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.

Encouragement to all women is – let us try to offer help before we have to offer therapy. That is to say, let’s see if we can’t prevent being ill by trying to offer a love of prevention before illness.

A fool is wise in his eyes.

Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.

Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope, and that enables you to laugh at life’s realities.

It’s a lot easier to stay idealistic if you don’t sign two to five next-of-kin letters every day.

We view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes; we have no wish to find them alike.

Well, Art is Art, isn’t it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know.

Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.

Changing is not just changing the things outside of us. First of all we need the right view that transcends all notions including of being and non-being, creator and creature, mind and spirit. That kind of insight is crucial for transformation and healing.

When there’s justice and change, you start to see the cleansing of the soul, and that is what I want for people, and I hope it’s okay for me to say those things.

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world.

I think it’s a very good thing to leave your country and look at it from afar.

My mother was very strong. Once, she picked up a coconut and smashed it against my father’s head. It taught me about women defending themselves and not collapsing in a heap.

The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.

Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.

You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn’t wear a veil. You know, guys like that ain’t got no manhood left anyway.

I was always very curious as a young man about why older writers who I met seemed so indifferent to what was going on, whereas I, in my 20s, was reading everything. Everything seemed important. But they were only interested in the writers they admired when they were young, and I didn’t understand it then, but now, now I understand it.

If you think the United States has stood still, who built the largest shopping center in the world?

To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.

How do you know what it’s like to be stupid if you’ve never been smart?

If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don’t need an enemy.

If I went back to my 20-year-old self, what I would tell my 20-year-old self is, ‚You don’t know anything.‘ Because everyone, when they’re young, they think they know what’s going on in the world, and you don’t.

You don’t have the same mentality as you did five years ago – even one year. People are always changing, and I believe that everyone deserves the space to change and for people to recognize their change.

You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own. It’s just a matter of paying attention to this miracle.

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

I encourage people not to be passive consumers of music and of culture in general. And feeling like, yeah, you can enjoy the products of professionals, but that doesn’t mean you don’t have to completely give up the reins and give up every connection to music or whatever it happens to be.

Governments don’t control people like they used to.

There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.

No sanction can stand against ignited minds.

If we are to be happy, we must first react against our tendency to follow the line of least resistance, a tendency that causes us either to remain as we are, or to look primarily to activities external to ourselves for what will provide new impetus to our lives.

Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.

Nothing endures but change.

I know a lot of athletes and models are written off as just bodies. I never felt used for my body.

The schools ain’t what they used to be and never was.

A wise woman wishes to be no one’s enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone’s victim.

I see the world being slowly transformed into a wilderness; I hear the approaching thunder that, one day, will destroy us too. I feel the suffering of millions. And yet, when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that everything will change for the better, that this cruelty too shall end, that peace and tranquility will return once more.

The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.

Little things affect little minds.

If you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree.

The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay.

I don’t look at a man who’s expert in one area as a specialist. I look at him as a rookie in ten other areas.

You can’t have everything. Where would you put it?

If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. If it goes past the centre of gravity on one side, it must go a like distance on the other; and it is only after a certain time that it finds the true point at which it can remain at rest.

First and foremost comes my family and my life with Brad. We have so much joy in raising our children and teaching them about the world that nothing really compares to that.

I think that all things, in their way, reflect heavenly truth, the imagination not least.