What is normal? Normal was yesterday. If you lose a leg, one day you’re hopping around on one leg, so you know the difference.

Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet’s heart when caught and tangled in a woman’s body?

You pray for rain, you gotta deal with the mud too. That’s a part of it.

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

War does not determine who is right – only who is left.

You are the universe, you aren’t in the universe.

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.

It’s almost schizophrenic who I portray in my music.

All the adversity I’ve had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me… You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

My faith was tested like Job. That’s the message I try to tell other people: just because you believe in God, serve God, feed the hungry, clothe the naked, people gotta realize, it don’t mean things not gonna happen to you.

Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality.

It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But… it is better to be good than to be ugly.

For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

I do hope that some of my dissents will one day be the law.

A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.

The only person who ever called me Paul was my father, so I always associate it with doing something wrong, you know. So, you know, occasionally, people will come up to me on the street and try to, you know, ingratiate themselves and call me Paul. I don’t like it, actually.

In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.

We live in ugly times.

We have one planet in our solar system that’s habitable, and that’s the Earth, and space travel can transform things back here for the better. First of all, by just having people go to space and look back on this fragile planet we live on. People have come back transformed and have done fantastic things.

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.

Being young is a great advantage, since we see the world from a new perspective and we are not afraid to make radical changes.

Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.

In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.

It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.

North Americans don’t understand… that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity.

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.

I think the tiniest little thing can change the course of your day, which can change the course of your year, which can change who you are.

Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Everyone calls me Bruno; they don’t ever call me Peter – that was just my government name.

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

An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight… the truly wise person is colorblind.

Players who are not from the U.K. have to get used to the winds. I have to adapt my style as a result as well. Often, you are forced to keep things simple.

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

If everything isn’t black and white, I say, ‚Why the hell not?‘

Many a man’s reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Courage is found in unlikely places.

Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

I feel Anglo-American.

I’m more of a realist when it comes to life, and I’d much rather my mother be in a spiritual place in Heaven than in a bed, sick, fighting for her life.

Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.

We’re all going to die, all of us; what a circus! That alone should make us love each other, but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities. We are eaten up by nothing.

I long for the time when all human history is taught as one history, because it really is.

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?

Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

Everyone looks at your watch and it represents who you are, your values and your personal style.

I do sometimes look back at things I’ve written in the past, and think, ‚I just don’t remember being the person who wrote that.‘

I think it’s a very good thing to leave your country and look at it from afar.

The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.

Look at a book. A book is the right size to be a book. They’re solar-powered. If you drop them, they keep on being a book. You can find your place in microseconds. Books are really good at being books, and no matter what happens, books will survive.

Everybody always laughs because I feel so much more comfortable with, like, a giant paper bag on my whole body and paint on my face. Sometimes I try really hard to take it all off. But inevitably what’s underneath is still not a straight edge. And I don’t think it ever will be.

I have nothing to ask but that you would remove to the other side, that you may not, by intercepting the sunshine, take from me what you cannot give.

Courage is grace under pressure.

The world around me has changed, and I have learned to adapt but not change. But I’m changing into the woman I am meant to be.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

I have never thought it necessary to patronize the American people.

At 50, I began to know who I was. It was like waking up to myself.

There is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell.