When people meet me, they say that I’m really kind – contrary to a lot of my music.

The foolish man conceives the idea of ‚self.‘ The wise man sees there is no ground on which to build the idea of ‚self;‘ thus, he has a right conception of the world and well concludes that all compounds amassed by sorrow will be dissolved again, but the truth will remain.

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

My father always taught me that when you help other people, then God will give you double. And that’s what has really happened to me. When I have helped other people who are in need, God has helped me more.

I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.

If I close my eyes and think of Hollywood, all I see is one big varicose vein.

I’m an absolutely normal guy.

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

The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.

The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.

It’s amazing if you just listen to people. They tell you all the time things that you can do for them, without even realizing what they’re doing. I’ve learned to take notice of those things and if it’s something that I feel God wants me to do, then I try to do that to add joy to their life.

If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.

The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.

I don’t think the Christian Right dominates America in the way some in the media believe they do.

There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.

Many people find the universe confusing – it’s not.

Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic can understand it.

We can’t help everyone, but everyone can help someone.

All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex and vital.

Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.

If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.

How sweet is the perception of a new natural fact!

We should take care not to make the intellect our goal; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.

Indeed, it is as important to learn how to receive a blessing as it is to be willing to give one.

My mother always wanted to give back.

It’s very difficult for the American people to believe that our government, one of the richest on Earth, is also one of the stingiest on Earth.

In assisting his ‚neighbour‘ every day to the best of his ability, and keeping truth, honesty, and kindness perpetually before him, the Boy Scout, with as little formality as possible, is pleasing God.

I wouldn’t put myself forward to do a film like ‚Changeling‘ if I thought I couldn’t pull people into a story because of all the other ways people see me.

It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.

Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.

Action is character.

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.

All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.

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.

I don’t really care how the Patriots are perceived, truthfully. I really don’t. I really don’t. Look, if you’re a fan of our team, you root for us, you believe in our team, and you believe in what we’re trying to accomplish. If you’re not a fan of us, you have a different opinion.

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.

Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.

The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.

I have a big gay and lesbian following and they’ve been very loyal and kind to me.

Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. For remember, you don’t live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too.

Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.

No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he’d only had good intentions; he had money as well.

I’m fascinated by the fact that we can’t grasp anything about time.

The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.

It sometimes makes people feel better about themselves, you know, to put other people down, or make fun of them, or maybe make mockery of their work and that doesn’t make me feel good at all.

I don’t think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change.

Let us fill our hearts with our own compassion – towards ourselves and towards all living beings.

Few people have the imagination for reality.

People who can’t be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.

If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.

If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly by the hand, before I mix with other people; otherwise they would think my mind rather queer.

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.

If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame.

Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.

It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.

They’re right to think that about me, because I’m the person most likely to sleep with my female fans, I genuinely love other women. And I think they know that.

What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.