What you see, but can’t see over is as good as infinite.

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

I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.

It is the greatest of all advantages to enjoy no advantage at all.

Yeah, I did see where the people dissing me were coming from. But, it’s like, anything that happened in the past between black and white, I can’t really speak on it, because I wasn’t there. I don’t feel like me being born the color I am makes me any less of a person.

When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.

It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.

To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.

I was ill, and everyone could see it but me.

You’re going to die. You’re going to be dead. It could be 20 years, it could be tomorrow, anytime. So am I. I mean, we’re just going to be gone. The world’s going to go on without us. All right now. You do your job in the face of that, and how seriously you take yourself you decide for yourself.

I don’t mind making jokes, but I don’t want to look like one.

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.

In the fight between you and the world, back the world.

It isn’t what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.

You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

I feel like everything we do comes down to how it looks. Even no branding is branding. For example, you had no face or image to put to my music at first. That was branding.

I’ve always felt like there was a lot of hype around me even when there wasn’t. I felt like everyone was talking about me even when no one was talking about me.

A pessimist? That’s a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist.

Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it’s curved like a road through mountains.

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.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

People often think I’m a faker, but I’m usually honest, in a certain way – in such a way that often nobody believes me!

It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.

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

Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.

All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or which finds us first. We are always ripe and ready to be taken.

People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.

In fact men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth – often more so, since a superstition is so intangible you cannot get at it to refute it, but truth is a point of view, and so is changeable.

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

For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.

‚Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.

I don’t care if people think I am an overactor, as long as they enjoy what I do. People who think that would call Van Gogh an overpainter.

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

All my life I’ve looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.

Life is a song to me.

Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.

Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.

Judgements prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances.

A fool is wise in his eyes.

Comedians are sociologists. We’re pointing out stuff that the general public doesn’t even stop to think about, looking at life in slow-motion and questioning everything we see.

There are folks who now know black families – like the Johnsons on ‚Black-ish‘ or the folks on ‚Modern Family.‘ They become part of who you are. You share their pains. You understand their fears. They make you laugh, and they change how you see the world.

People see things differently and remember things differently. It’s why if somebody robs a liquor store and there are four witnesses they’ll often disagree.

I don’t concern myself with award. I’d been to the party enough times to know it really didn’t matter.

There’s no way to remove the observer – us – from our perceptions of the world.

Men freely believe that which they desire.

You always admire what you really don’t understand.

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

I still make sure to go, at least once every year, to a country where things cannot be taken for granted, and where there is either too much law and order or too little.

We should not look at terrorism from the nameplates – which group they belong to, what is their geographical location, who are the victims. These individual groups or names will keep changing.

Some people mistakenly think nature is very nice and benevolent and never betrays.

In terms of doing work and in terms of learning and evolving as a person, you just grow more when you get more people’s perspectives… I really try and live the mission of the company and… keep everything else in my life extremely simple.

If you change and adapt your persona, you are seen as inauthentic; if you stay the angry young man, you fade from attention or seem tiresome.

The minority is sometimes right; the majority always wrong.

Fiction is like a spider’s web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.

The image is one thing and the human being is another. It’s very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.

Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.