Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What’s a sundial in the shade?

Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom – and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.

All human evil comes from a single cause, man’s inability to sit still in a room.

To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.

The ‚Maddox Jolie-Pitt‘ Foundation’s work is inspired by our children and their connections to particular countries.

The true artist is not proud: he unfortunately sees that art has no limits; he feels darkly how far he is from the goal, and though he may be admired by others, he is sad not to have reached that point to which his better genius only appears as a distant, guiding sun.

God’s Spirit moves through us and the world at a pace that can never be constricted by any one religious paradigm. I love that.

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

All my life I’ve been taught how to die, but no one ever taught me how to grow old.

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.

All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

I’m just a kid that defied the odds. I’m just a kid that ignored the doubt. I’m just a kid from a little place in Dublin, Ireland, that went all the way, and I’m going to continue to go all the way.

In a certain sense the Good is comfortless.

There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.

Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.

Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.

Suppose you could gain everything in the whole world, and lost your soul. Was it worth it?

It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.

A lot of my heartbreak songs are inspired by things my sisters are going through, or friends.

As soon as you set foot on a yacht you belong to some man, not to yourself, and you die of boredom.

Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them.

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

You may be able to read Bernard Shaw’s plays, you may be able to quote Shakespeare or Voltaire or some new philosopher; but if you in yourself are not intelligent, if you are not creative, what is the point of this education?

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

It is most unwise for people in love to marry.

To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.

We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be.

The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.

I draw from the Absurd three consequences: my revolt, my liberty, my passion.

If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.

Infinites, when considered absolutely without any restriction or limitation, are neither equal nor unequal, nor have any certain proportion one to another, and therefore, the principle that all infinites are equal is a precarious one.

Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good.

Our best thoughts come from others.

I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.

When we talk about mortality, we are talking about our children.

I was inspired to spend an entire year – my 65th year – reading, researching, and meditating on Lao-tzu’s messages, practicing them and ultimately writing down these insights as I felt Lao-tzu wanted us to know them.

I believe things cannot make themselves impossible.

Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.

Getting a great idea with song writing is a lot like love. You don’t know why this one is different, but it is. You don’t know why this one is better, but it is. It sticks in your head, and you can’t stop thinking about it.

Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.

One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.

Upon the subjects of which I have treated, I have spoken as I have thought. I may be wrong in regard to any or all of them; but, holding it a sound maxim that it is better only sometimes to be right than at all times to be wrong, so soon as I discover my opinions to be erroneous, I shall be ready to renounce them.

I always use Michael as, first and foremost, a vocal inspiration, and ‚Off the Wall‘ was definitely the one that made me feel like I could sing.

The genesis of a poem for me is usually a cluster of words. The only good metaphor I can think of is a scientific one: dipping a thread into a supersaturated solution to induce crystal formation. I don’t think I solve problems in my poetry; I think I uncover the problems.

Find your voice and inspire others to find theirs.

I have certain guys who I looked up to. Jordan, Kobe, those guys. Passing that on to doing my part to kind of keep that influence of basketball where it should be is kind of why I play the game.

If a man does his best, what else is there?

A man’s as miserable as he thinks he is.

Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

As far as I’m concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.

It’s my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained.

He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.