There’s people that appreciate what I do; there’s people that criticize it.

If I’m a star, then the people made me a star.

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.

There are people out there who hate me and who say I’m arrogant, vain, and whatever. That’s all part of my success. I am made to be the best.

No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?

Continuous eloquence wearies. Grandeur must be abandoned to be appreciated. Continuity in everything is unpleasant. Cold is agreeable, that we may get warm.

The first rap CD that I had, it was so different for me. The energy, the wordplay, all that caught my attention, and I liked it.

I do value the respect I get from my contemporaries, but to have Oasis cover my song, to have Puff Daddy cover a song, to have Goldie come along to my gigs – that’s where my ego is at. To have my fellow musicians like what I do, that’s very cool.

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy’s tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days! It blesses him that gives and him that takes.

I am not a fan of books.

Even with all of the things that are so awful, if you walk into your yard and stay there looking at almost anything for five minutes, you will be stunned by how marvelous life is and how incredibly lucky we are to have it.

When I walk outside, people have something to say about it.

People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.

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

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain – and most fools do.

You tend to feel very hurt when people attack you and feel indifferent when you get praise. You think, ‚Of course they like it. They should like it.‘

I think it’s a myth that American public or any other public is so stupid that they need to be constantly pricked.

There’s plenty to criticize about the mass media, but they are the source of regular information about a wide range of topics. You can’t duplicate that on blogs.

In England, when an athlete gets to the top, we do our best to destroy him.

There is a group of people that I think in good faith honestly believe that further curtailing our Second Amendment rights will enhance public safety. But there’s another group that just hates the Second Amendment.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

The passive aggressive arguer comes armed with tricky tactics. They cannot take the risk that they might be wrong: their self-esteem is too intertwined with their opinions. It is more important to affirm their rightness, and sense of superiority, than to arrive at the truth.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

When I left Dortmund, I said it’s not important what people think when you come in but what they think when you leave.

To announce that there must be no criticism of the president… is morally treasonable to the American public.

What ‚multiculturalism‘ boils down to is that you can praise any culture in the world except Western culture – and you cannot blame any culture in the world except Western culture.

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.

My mother made me truly appreciate women.

People really had a problem with my disinterest in submission. They had a problem with my intellect, and they had a problem with my choice of lovers. They had a problem with my choice of everything.

Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.

I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks, but for the ledger of our daily work.

We love things we love what they are.

In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.

He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.

He who acts with a constant view to his own advantage will be much murmured against.

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Henry Kissinger should have the door shut in his face by every decent person and should be shamed, ostracized and excluded.

I love life because what more is there?

He who praises everybody, praises nobody.

I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness. Heaven knows that John the Baptist was not more eager to get all his fellow sinners into the Jordan than I to baptize all of mine in the beauty of God’s mountains.

I always want to listen to people and receive good criticism, but I just don’t have to answer to them; I have to answer to God.

It’s cool to be recognised by your peers.

I have never entered into any controversy in defense of my philosophical opinions; I leave them to take their chance in the world. If they are right, truth and experience will support them; if wrong, they ought to be refuted and rejected. Disputes are apt to sour one’s temper and disturb one’s quiet.

I’m screamingly funny, you know, I really am in the books. And that helps because I’m funnier than a lot of people, I think, and that’s appreciated by young people.

Have you not noticed that love is silence? It may be while holding the hand of another, or looking lovingly at a child, or taking in the beauty of an evening. Love has no past or future, and so it is with this extraordinary state of silence.

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.

The oppression of any people for opinion’s sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.

Friends applaud, the comedy is over.

Understand, our police officers put their lives on the line for us every single day. They’ve got a tough job to do to maintain public safety and hold accountable those who break the law.

To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.

The second time around, I’ll understand that, as a husband, my wife doesn’t care about my opinions. I just need to tell her the things that will continue to help me stack the brownie points.

Every blessing ignored becomes a curse.

Fame will go by and, so long, I’ve had you, fame. If it goes by, I’ve always known it was fickle. So at least it’s something I experience, but that’s not where I live.

It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?

I heard that when Christina Aguilera went back to her prom, people, like, booed her. I can’t imagine going through that. If you know that’s going to happen, why put yourself in that situation? I’d rather play for 20,000 screaming people, you know?

Many people are alive but don’t touch the miracle of being alive.

The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.