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.

What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.

Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist.

I did 20 years in the Navy. I joined the Navy right out of high school and went through Navy boot camp, went to SEAL training, got done with that, and then showed up at a SEAL team, where I did 20 years. That was pretty much my whole adult life.

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.

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.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.

I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.

You are the universe, you aren’t in the universe.

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.

If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.

You don’t have to be like everybody else or do things like everybody else. God created you to be a unique individual, and He wants you to be free to be who He made you to be.

The worst men often give the best advice.

I don’t notice anybody unless they look great, and every now and again they do, and they are usually 70.

My experience in Amsterdam is that cyclists ride where the hell they like and aim in a state of rage at all pedestrians while ringing their bell loudly, the concept of avoiding people being foreign to them.

You have to understand that people that are hurting are going to criticize.

From my standpoint, being an artist, I want to see what the new construction is between artist and audience.

I’ve actually taken companies public, I’ve actually busted companies, I’ve actually gone broke.

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

If I make music and people hate it, you know, whatever. I’ll die someday, and one day, they will too.

All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.

Experience is one thing you can’t get for nothing.

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

There’s a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

I think the idea of art kills creativity.

We will naturally pursue our goals on the strength of our own resources, skills and enterprise. But, we know that we will be more successful when we do this in partnership with the world.

When I was 18, I thought that, to be a romantic, you couldn’t live past 30.

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

I hate to mention age, but I come from an era when we weren’t consumed by technology and television.

In terms of doing work and in terms of learning and evolving as a person, you just grow more when you get more people’s perspectives… I really try and live the mission of the company and… keep everything else in my life extremely simple.

The left paw has done me well over the years. I’m not a scientist, I’m a martial artist.

It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.

The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.

People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.

There may not be one Truth – there may be several truths – but saying that is not to say that reality doesn’t exist.

There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.

Youth is wasted on the young.

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

Little things console us because little things afflict us.

What’s the use of happiness? It can’t buy you money.

A tree’s a tree. How many more do you need to look at?

Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.

Mortality is very different when you’re 20 to when you’re 50.

If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person’s point of view and see things from that person’s angle as well as from your own.

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

Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.

You just want something else that someone else has, but that doesn’t mean what you have isn’t beautiful, because people always want what you have, and you always want what they have – no one is ever 100 per cent like, ‚Yes, I’m the bomb dot com – from head to toe!‘

The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.

I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.

Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.

For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.

The child inside of you knows how to take things as they come, how to deal most effectively and happily with everything and everyone it encounters on this planet. If you can recapture that childlike essence of your being, you can stay ‚forever young at heart.‘

I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.

No such thing as a man willing to be honest – that would be like a blind man willing to see.

The only source of knowledge is experience.

The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is.