They say the world has become too complex for simple answers. They are wrong.

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world… Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Technology is huge; I wanted to learn about it. People might say that’s odd, but I think it’s odd if artists aren’t interested in the world around them. I’m always chasing that.

I am so tired of fear. And I don’t want my girls to live in a country, in a world, based on fear.

Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

I think business has to be stupider. I want to do really straightforward, stupid business – just talk to me like a 4-year-old. And I refuse to negotiate. I do not negotiate. I can collaborate. But I’m an artist, so as soon as you negotiate, you’re being compromised.

I always kind of see how I want things to be better, and I’m generally not happy with how things are or the level of service that we’re providing for people or the quality of the teams that we built. But if you look at this objectively, we’re doing so well on so many of these things. I think it’s important to have gratitude for that.

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.

Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.

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.

Sometimes the majority just means all the fools are on the same side.

How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean.

In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.

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.

Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked.

If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.

In the studio, we adhere to a strict colour code. Developed over decades, the colour code consists of a finite and precise colour palate… The whole world as we experience it comes to us through the mystic realm of colour.

The complexity of things – the things within things – just seems to be endless. I mean nothing is easy, nothing is simple.

Exposure from a young age to the realities of the world is a super-big thing.

The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.

The most important question in the world is, ‚Why is the child crying?‘

And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.

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

People talk to people who perceive nothing, who have open eyes and see nothing; they shall talk to them and receive no answer; they shall adore those who have ears and hear nothing; they shall burn lamps for those who do not see.

I want to reform the tax code so that it’s simple, fair, and asks the wealthiest households to pay higher taxes on incomes over $250,000 – the same rate we had when Bill Clinton was president; the same rate we had when our economy created nearly 23 million new jobs, the biggest surplus in history, and a lot of millionaires to boot.

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people.

Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else’s head instead of with one’s own.

Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.

But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man’s eyes.

Nothing is further than earth from heaven, and nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.

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

Sometimes I try to just sit at home and do something calmer and simpler and just be in my life. You know, not trying to solve a lot of things at once.

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.

Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions.

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

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

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

The wind can be quite extreme in England. We are not familiar with that in Germany, and you have to keep things simple.

Music is one of the most powerful things the world has to offer. No matter what race or religion or nationality or sexual orientation or gender that you are, it has the power to unite us.

Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true.

I’ve found men are less likely to let petty things annoy them.

I’ve got a feeling that music might not be the most interesting place to be in the world of things.

Society therefore is as ancient as the world.

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

I don’t let my religious world get too complicated.

Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

I have written too much history to have faith in it; and if anyone thinks I’m wrong, I am inclined to agree with him.

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.

There is something curiously boring about somebody else’s happiness.

Life is so, so short. Bible says it’s like a vapor.

Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do.

An honest man is always a child.

Is the babe young? When I behold it, it seems more venerable than the oldest man.

There is love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look.

The name Muhammad is the most common name in the world. In all the countries around the world – Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon – there are more Muhammads than anything else. When I joined the Nation of Islam and became a Muslim, they gave me the most famous name because I was the champ.

Why a four-year-old child could understand this report. Run out and find me a four-year-old child. I can’t make head nor tail out of it.

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.

What I have is a malevolent curiosity. That’s what drives my need to write and what probably leads me to look at things a little askew. I do tend to take a different perspective from most people.