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.

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.

No finite point has meaning without an infinite reference point.

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world to the other.

Thomas Jefferson once said, ‚We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.‘ And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.

Every band I’ve worked with also wants to be countercultural in the sense that they want to feel that they’ve gone somewhere that nobody else has been.

Life is a series of commas, not periods.

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.

Sometimes we look back and 10 years from now we think, ‚Boy, those were great old days.‘ Well, you know, we’re living in the good old days.

The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.

In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure; in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it is excessively discussed.

When I write, it’s like choosing which shoes I’m going to put on. More often than not, my lyrics are personal – but I sometimes have to put myself in other people’s shoes.

There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men.

The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.

All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.

I think I hate cynicism more than anything else. It’s the curse of our age, and I want to avoid it at all costs.

Context and memory play powerful roles in all the truly great meals in one’s life.

To be admitted to Nature’s hearth costs nothing. None is excluded, but excludes himself. You have only to push aside the curtain.

Each man is always in the middle of the surface of the earth and under the zenith of his own hemisphere, and over the centre of the earth.

Experience teaches only the teachable.

No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.

I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can’t see from the center.

A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.

Acting is a question of absorbing other people’s personalities and adding some of your own experience.

The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.

I still make sure to go, at least once every year, to a country where things cannot be taken for granted, and where there is either too much law and order or too little.

Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments.

It is normal to give away a little of one’s life in order not to lose it all.

The time to worrying about flying is when you’re on the ground. When you’re up in the air, it’s too late. No point in worrying about it then.

Eight years involved with the nuclear industry have taught me that when nothing can possible go wrong and every avenue has been covered, then is the time to buy a house on the next continent.

Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?

I had a much better view with the halo than I expected.

It’s different from being 21 and you think there’s endless amount of opportunities. At 33, the ending is much, much closer.

For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

I don’t see that my majority opinions are going to be undone.

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

Things ain’t what they used to be and never were.

Two things control men’s nature, instinct and experience.

Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.

I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.

Being happy is a matter of personal taste.

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

To see things in the seed, that is genius.

You know, I’m just 6’9 and 260. And just so happen to be very good at playing the game of basketball.“

Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.

I liked his ability to deal with a lot of the negativity that surrounded him. Even though he was in a world that he didn’t want to be in, he still saw the bigger picture.

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.

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

It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.

As a musician and a songwriter, it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in your point of view. But it is usually an empathetic nature that gets you going in the first place.

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.

Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering – because you can’t take it in all at once.

It is the greatest of all advantages to enjoy no advantage at all.

Originality is really important.

One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.

The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

Prime time for men is, say, 35 to 45. Then they level off and fall off.