Whether or not I like a piece of data has very little bearing on whether or not I am likely to accept it.

I don’t look at a man who’s expert in one area as a specialist. I look at him as a rookie in ten other areas.

Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.

Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.

I’m half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times. It’s best not to ask questions and just enjoy.

My life as a child did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.

If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don’t care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.

Myths which are believed in tend to become true.

You can’t have a rigid view that all new taxes are evil.

Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.

If you see everything from the point of view of women being victims in some way, you don’t see the wood for the trees. It is better to be a person than a woman.

How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.

Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.

Now, we are selling over 5 million songs a day now. Isn’t that unbelievable? That’s 58 songs every second of every minute of every hour of every day.

The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.

What one fool can understand, another can.

Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.

It may be, it just may be, that life as we know it with its humanity is more unique than many have thought.

There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.

Accept the terrible responsibility of life with eyes wide open.

Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.

Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, ‚This is a misfortune‘ but ‚To bear this worthily is good fortune.‘

There are no facts, only interpretations.

Whatever I will become will be what God has chosen for me.

I feel like the way I was raised was to be able to see through all the titles in this world – from religion to race.

I have been a firm believer in the federal structure of our country as enshrined in the Constitution.

There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.

I sang a song at my sister’s wedding. My mother forced me into that, too. But that one felt all right.

If I went back to my 20-year-old self, what I would tell my 20-year-old self is, ‚You don’t know anything.‘ Because everyone, when they’re young, they think they know what’s going on in the world, and you don’t.

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

If you’re doing a biography, you try to stay as accurate as possible to reality. But you really don’t know what was going on in the person’s mind. You just know what was going on in the minds of people around him.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

A lot of people don’t like the road, but it’s as natural to me as breathing.

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

The universe is wider than our views of it.

I’m convinced that no one can amount to a damn in the arts if he becomes sweetly reasonable, seeing all sides of a picture, forgiving all sins.

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

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

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

Everything is clearer when you’re in love.

To terrify children with the image of hell… to consider women an inferior creation. Is that good for the world?

All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract; or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience.

No one has done a study on this, as far as I can tell, but I think Facebook might be the first place where a large number of people have come out. We didn’t create that – society was generally ready for that. I think this is just part of the general trend that we talked about, about society being more open, and I think that’s good.

In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage.

If proud Americans can be who they are and boldly stand at the altar with who they love then surely, surely we can give everyone in this country a fair chance at that great American Dream.

Always say ‚yes‘ to the present moment… Surrender to what is. Say ‚yes‘ to life – and see how life starts suddenly to start working for you rather than against you.

What I have is a malevolent curiosity. That’s what drives my need to write and what probably leads me to look at things a little askew. I do tend to take a different perspective from most people.

There is always another way to say the same thing that doesn’t look at all like the way you said it before. I don’t know what the reason for this is. I think it is somehow a representation of the simplicity of nature.

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.

I try to teach through my opinions, through my speeches, how wrong it is to judge people on the basis of what they look like, color of their skin, whether they’re men or women.

I’m opposed to fundamentalism in any form.

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

This is not a bad life.

Any experience that touches you, in any particular way, is good. It can be a horrible experience.

If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own.

To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

So what is discord at one level of your being is harmony at another level.

There is nothing insignificant in the world. It all depends on the point of view.

We polled Tesla owners, do you want autopilot disabled or not. Not one person wanted it disabled. That’s pretty telling.

Money can’t buy life.