Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

One day it will be over, and I don’t care.

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.

There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor.

Read about history, and you become aware that nothing starts with us.

I wrote my first song at 12 and remember someone asking, ‚What were you going through at 12 that you could write about?‘ I get what you’re saying, but 11, 12, 13 were the hardest years of my life. You learn everything. You learn how horrible things feel.

The more you know the less you need to say.

Love is a really scary thing, and you never know what’s going to happen. It’s one of the most beautiful things in life, but it’s one of the most terrifying. It’s worth the fear because you have more knowledge, experience, you learn from people, and you have memories.

This is a wonderful planet, and it is being completely destroyed by people who have too much money and power and no empathy.

My experience is listen, see, feel – and then think about what you change.

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.

There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men.

Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?

I don’t see that my majority opinions are going to be undone.

The marvel of the Bhagavad-Gita is its truly beautiful revelation of life’s wisdom which enables philosophy to blossom into religion.

I’ve found men are less likely to let petty things annoy them.

Older and wiser voices can help you find the right path, if you are only willing to listen.

The left paw has done me well over the years. I’m not a scientist, I’m a martial artist.

I think it is a sin to look at another person as inferior to yourself because of race or because of ethnic background, and I think the greatest thing to do is to pray that God will give you love for them, and I do.

There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

Instead of judging people, we need to pray.

As you get older, time speeds up but life slows down.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

Doing a show for three weeks is nothing like doing a show for seven seasons.

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.

Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.

What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.

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

The design of the Mac wasn’t what it looked like, although that was part of it. Primarily, it was how it worked. To design something really well, you have to get it. You have to really grok what it’s all about. It takes a passionate commitment to really thoroughly understand something, chew it up, not just quickly swallow it.

Every time I see documentaries or infomercials about little kids with cancer, I just freak out. It affects me on the highest emotional level… Anytime I think about it, it makes me sadder than anything I can think of.

Those thoughts are truth which guide us to beneficial interaction with sensible particulars as they occur, whether they copy these in advance or not.

It is a very rare man who does not victimize the helpless.

What’s the use of happiness? It can’t buy you money.

It’s no accident many accuse me of conducting public affairs with my heart instead of my head. Well, what if I do? Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart don’t know how to laugh either.

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but a hatred of all injury.

Every man over forty is a scoundrel.

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

The Make in India campaign has taken off and is backed with skill development. It is going to open new vistas for employment for the youth.

It always seems to me so odd that when a man dies, he takes out with him all the knowledge that he has got in his lifetime whilst sowing his wild oats or winning successes. And he leaves his sons or younger brothers to go through all the work of learning it over again from their own experience.

Meditation is to get insight, to get understanding and compassion, and when you have them, you are compelled to act.

I’ve done auditions where the casting director is taking the paper out of my hand in the middle of reading.

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

Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

It’s presumptuous to say you know how somebody feels.

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.

Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

Don’t ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

The worst men often give the best advice.

No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.

A man will speedily sit down and sympathize with a friend’s griefs, but if he sees him honored and esteemed, he is apt to regard him as a rival and does not so readily rejoice with him. This ought not to be; without effort, we ought to be happy in our brother’s happiness.

Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.

A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.

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.

No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.

Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.

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