The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.

It is only at the first encounter that a face makes its full impression on us.

I have dual citizenship; it just so happens I live in America. I would like to go back to Wales. I’m obsessed with my childhood, and at least three times a week dream I am back there.

Money can’t buy life.

The little man is still a man.

Children are all foreigners.

It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.

We are certainly not to relinquish the evidence of experiments for the sake of dreams and vain fictions of our own devising; nor are we to recede from the analogy of Nature, which is wont to be simple and always consonant to itself.

I would be stupid not to be on my own side. But I’m a human being, too. And I’m on the side of human beings, rather than on the side of crocodiles.

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there’s a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.

When people meet me, they say that I’m really kind – contrary to a lot of my music.

People have been fed this diet of pabulum, rights, and impulsive freedom. There’s just an absolute starvation for the other side of the story.

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.

It seems that when you have cancer you are a brave battler against the disease, but when you have Alzheimer’s you are an old fart. That’s how people see you. It makes you feel quite alone.

The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.

In today’s world, having money has allowed people who are extremely uncool to think that they’re cool and carry it like that. People who really are cool and people who really are artists and have ideas have to literally turn in their cool card to society just to make it past the age of 28.

Except for the young or very happy, I can’t say I am sorry for anyone who dies.

Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.

The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.

Everybody looks like clones and the only people you notice are my age. I don’t notice anybody unless they look great, and every now and again they do, and they are usually 70.

Life is not living in the suburbs with a white picket fence. That’s not life. Somehow our American culture has made it out that that’s what life needs to be – and that if it’s not that, it’s all screwed up. It’s not.

Some are reputed sick and some are not. It often happens that the sicker man is the nurse to the sounder.

Emotion creates reality, reality demands action.

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

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down .

I think the word rich is all relative.

We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value.

Fame doesn’t fulfill you. It warms you a bit, but that warmth is temporary.

The eye sees what it brings the power to see.

If you can’t read, it’s going to be hard to realize dreams.

What one fool can understand, another can.

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

The less you know, the more you believe.

A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor.

I never thought a career as a musician was possible.

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

My age is very insignificant to me. I don’t think about it, but the world does. The world likes young people in general.

I’ve never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It’s probably because they have forgotten their own.

The Guide is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate.

Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?

We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be.

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.

Every man’s life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Most of our lives aren’t that exciting, but the drama is still going on in the small details.

It was a personal decision for me to stand and say that cricket is all I have in life, there’s nothing I need to do other than cricket. If I want to achieve whatever I thought as a kid, I need to work hard and not let it go to waste.

I’m not confused. I’m just well mixed.

My family has very strong women. My mother never laughed at my dream of Africa, even though everyone else did because we didn’t have any money, because Africa was the ‚dark continent‘, and because I was a girl.

Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.

To me, constructive criticism is when people take ownership of their ideas. That’s why I don’t listen to anything that’s anonymous. But it’s hard; when there’s something hurtful out there, I still want to read it over and over and memorize it and explain my point of view to the person.

A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.

Do not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees are cut down while crooked ones are left standing.

I’m personally more struck by visual things more than musical.

I knew I wanted to do something creative. I didn’t think I’d have the luxury of doing something like that, because I didn’t know anyone who had pursued anything they really adored, but I had dreams for singing or writing.

You can’t be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who’s for you and who’s against you.

The ‚I think‘ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‚I breathe‘ which actually does accompany them.

No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.

When I was a boy we didn’t wake up with Vietnam and have Cyprus for lunch and the Congo for dinner.

You’re going to die. You’re going to be dead. It could be 20 years, it could be tomorrow, anytime. So am I. I mean, we’re just going to be gone. The world’s going to go on without us. All right now. You do your job in the face of that, and how seriously you take yourself you decide for yourself.

Fiction is like a spider’s web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.

Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.

I wouldn’t put myself forward to do a film like ‚Changeling‘ if I thought I couldn’t pull people into a story because of all the other ways people see me.