We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced.

In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.

Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.

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

No finite point has meaning without an infinite reference point.

We just cannot worry about ourselves.

The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.

My own view is that every company requires a long-term view.

We must cultivate our own garden. When man was put in the garden of Eden he was put there so that he should work, which proves that man was not born to rest.

I don’t have much positive to say about motor neurone disease. But it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I could still do.

I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Fame doesn’t fulfill you. It warms you a bit, but that warmth is temporary.

A true man hates no one.

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

What I have in common with the character in ‚Truman‘ is this incredible need to please people. I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.

No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.

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’ve watched a lot of people who became famous who completely change and I think it’s because they tend to believe all the hype that’s out there. I don’t think there’s that much hype about me.

When we value correct principles, we have truth – a knowledge of things as they are.

Children are all foreigners.

Being happy is a matter of personal taste.

Transforming yourself into a deep listener will not only prove more amusing as you open your mind to their mind, but you will gain the most invaluable lessons about human psychology.

When I talk to kids, I’m really listening. When I do that, we have a little bit of a bigger connection than me being Kendrick Lamar and you being a student. It’s almost like we’re friends. Because a friend listens.

On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.

We may have our private opinions but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?

People in Latin America… love America from afar and emulate America in some ways but also hate a lot of things that America does to them.

I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.

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

We hunger to understand, so we invent myths about how we imagine the world is constructed – and they’re, of course, based upon what we know, which is ourselves and other animals. So we make up stories about how the world was hatched from a cosmic egg or created after the mating of cosmic deities or by some fiat of a powerful being.

Men freely believe that which they desire.

We live in ugly times.

I think everyone should approach relationships from the perspective of playing it straight and giving someone the benefit of the doubt. Until he establishes that this is a game. And if it’s a game, you need to win. The best thing to do is just walk away from the table.

The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.

What humility does for one is it reminds us that there are people before me. I have already been paid for. And what I need to do is prepare myself so that I can pay for someone else who has yet to come but who may be here and needs me.

My mother told me, ‚Son, nobody else but God knows.‘ And that’s what I’m about – reaching out to the people, crying with them, giving them hope. Visiting the hospital, visiting the kids with cancer, visiting the adults, and stuff like that. That’s what I do.

If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.

Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is impossible to foresee this, it is impossible to be warned.

It is a true rule that love is ever rewarded, either with the reciproque or with an inward and secret contempt.

His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly’s wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred.

When I was two, a dragonfly flew near me. A man knocked it to the ground and trod on it. I remember crying because I’d caused the dragonfly to be killed.

Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.

When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

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

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.

Man consists of two parts, his mind and his body, only the body has more fun.

I’m a pretty tough guy, you know. I’m a pretty hard man. I’ve got a lot of compassion, but I don’t waste time with people.

Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?

I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.

He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.

When you are young, you cannot imagine being disabled. You imagine you would conquer it somehow. As I’ve got older, I can imagine it; I can see how life narrows in. I feel compassion for my mother now.

Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.

Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved.

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

Ageing’s alright, better than the alternative, which is not being here.

When you’re born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you’re born in America, you get a front row seat.

A child wants things to be a certain way. When you get to be an adult, you just understand that some people are good, some are not, and you can’t be naive.

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

I’ve 20,000 hours of clinical practice; you’re not naive after the first few thousand. I’ve helped people deal with things that most people can’t imagine.

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

The human wish to credit good things as miraculous and to charge bad things to another account is apparently universal.