The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

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.

We do not see people as they are, but as they appear to us. And these appearances are usually misleading.

The truth may be out there, but lies are inside your head.

It’s true that obscenity is a matter of taste and in the eye of the beholder.

Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey ‚people.‘ People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war… Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.

Frank and explicit – that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.

I’m not really concerned with portraying this tough warrior – I mean, that’s part of my job and I take that very seriously. But I don’t have anything to hide, and I’m not concerned with what people think.

I have met 18 million youth, and each wants to be unique.

Some men do think I’m a psycho bunny-boiler.

Just as the humble, unassuming, assenting ‚O.K.‘ has deposed the more affirmative ‚Yes,‘ so the little cringe and hesitation and approximation of ‚like‘ are a help to young people who are struggling to negotiate the shoals and rapids of ethnic identity, the street, and general correctness.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

The youth need to be enabled to become job generators from job seekers.

Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.

Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin.

The eye sees what it brings the power to see.

It is perfectly possible to live a very moral life without a belief in God, and I think it’s perfectly possible to live a life peppered with ill-doing and believe in God.

I think the perception of peace is what distracts most people from really having it.

Judgements prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances.

Good psychology should include all the methodological techniques, without having loyalty to one method, one idea, or one person.

Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.

I would impress upon your minds the fact that if you want to do a man justice, you should believe what a man says himself rather than what people say he says.

When I was a kid, I never did funny things to get attention. I was never a funny person. I was never, like, ‚Oh, wow. I could say this some day on stage.‘

People do dismiss ambient music, don’t they? They call it ‚easy listening,‘ as if to suggest that it should be hard to listen to.

The philosophical question before us is, when we make an observation of our track in the past, does the result of our observation become real in the same sense that the final state would be defined if an outside observer were to make the observation?

Genius, when young, is divine.

Upon the farm of the uncle with whom I lived, we did know of the mortgage as some dreadful damper on youthful hopes of things that could not be bought. I do have a vivid recollection that the major purpose of a farm was to produce a living right on the spot for the family.

I was terrible in English. I couldn’t stand the subject. It seemed to me ridiculous to worry about whether you spelled something wrong or not, because English spelling is just a human convention – it has nothing to do with anything real, anything from nature.

Players today moan about the number of games, but when you’re young, you can’t play enough.

Words are more powerful than some noises. Noises won’t last long. Lyrics are so important, and people don’t realise that.

It’s very difficult for the American people to believe that our government, one of the richest on Earth, is also one of the stingiest on Earth.

A man’s true character comes out when he’s drunk.

We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners.

The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.

The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.

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.

A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.

The fellow that can only see a week ahead is always the popular fellow, for he is looking with the crowd. But the one that can see years ahead, he has a telescope but he can’t make anybody believe that he has it.

Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.

Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.

I mean, if you didn’t get it or if you didn’t feel like you enjoyed it, sometimes that experience can change.

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 get to hear the really good or the really bad things in the press, but I don’t read it. I can afford to say that because public opinion does not drive U2’s audience.

We should all start to live before we get too old.

Some folks look at me and see a certain swagger, which in Texas is called ‚walking.‘

If you change and adapt your persona, you are seen as inauthentic; if you stay the angry young man, you fade from attention or seem tiresome.

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.

See things from the boy’s point of view.

I am not young but I feel young. The day I feel old, I will go to bed and stay there. J’aime la vie! I feel that to live is a wonderful thing.

To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.

I just always wanted to study human behavior because every psychologist that I would talk to would tell me I was bipolar, and I know I’m not bipolar, so I had to perform a psychoanalysis on myself to find out that I have unresolved grief.

We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it.

I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.

An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.

The Make in India campaign has taken off and is backed with skill development. It is going to open new vistas for employment for the youth.

My father probably thought the capital of the world was wherever he was at the time. It couldn’t possibly be anyplace else. Where he and his wife were in their own home, that, for them, was the capital of the world.

It is the youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow… that are the aftermath of war.

I’m mischievous, but I’m calculated.

People love conspiracy theories.

Character is expressed through our behavior patterns, or natural responses to things.

Not everyone can see the truth, but he can be it.