Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.

Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist.

It was my delusion and naivety that brought me here.

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.

All human evil comes from a single cause, man’s inability to sit still in a room.

Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.

Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.

He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.

Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.

My love is a hummingbird sitting that quiet moment on the bough, as the same cat crouches.

I have a dogmatic certainty: God is in every person’s life. God is in everyone’s life. Even if the life of a person has been a disaster, even if it is destroyed by vices, drugs or anything else – God is in this person’s life. You can – you must – try to seek God in every human life.

We are not going to be satisfied by politicians saying ‚we support you‘ and then walking away. We won’t be satisfied until they meet our demands and act. That’s why simply taking a selfie or posting support on Twitter isn’t enough. That’s why we have to keep striking.

Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.

Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn’t.

Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.

Never complain. Never explain.

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

What’s really hard is that you could care a lot for someone and not want to live with him anymore.

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.

Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.

You can’t imagine parlor ballads drifting out of high-rise multi-towered buildings. That kind of music existed in a more timeless state of life.

Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness.

Good men by nature, wish to know. I know that many will call this useless work… men who desire nothing but material riches and are absolutely devoid of that of wisdom, which is the food and only true riches of the mind.

Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.

There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.

I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.

Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature.

There are some Christian people who taste and see and enjoy religion in their own souls, and who get at a deeper knowledge of it than books can ever give them, though they should search all their days.

I’ve been called a recluse. There’s definitely truth in that. I like to spend time alone.

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.

An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.

Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.

‚Trilogy‘ was more of a claustrophobic body of work. Before it was released, I hadn’t left my city for 21 years, and I had never been on a plane, not once. I spent my entire life on one setting; that’s probably why pieces of the album feel like one long track, because that’s what my life felt like. It felt like one long song.

Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.

In all my work, in the movies I write, the lyrics, the poetry, the prose, the essays, I am saying that we may encounter many defeats – maybe it’s imperative that we encounter the defeats – but we are much stronger than we appear to be and maybe much better than we allow ourselves to be. Human beings are more alike than unalike.

Delhi means everything to me. This city has given me everything, and I love it.

I do not think I could myself be brought to support a man for office whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion.

Nearly all the things I do that are of any merit at all start off just being good fun, and I think I’m sort of building up to doing something else quite soon.

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.

There might be some serious fun in politics.

Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.

Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

The natural desire of good men is knowledge.

I have met 18 million youth, and each wants to be unique.

The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.

Of life’s two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer’s hand.

I like to write about love and love lost because I feel like there are so many different subcategories of emotions that you can possibly delve into.

We spend our lives, all of us, waiting for the great day, the great battle, or the deed of power. But that external consummation is not given to many: nor is it necessary. So long as our being is tensed, directed with passion, towards that which is the spirit of all things, then that spirit will emerge from our own hidden, nameless effort.

As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.

I used to have a real problem with self-pity. Every time the devil would throw a pity party, I would attend.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Premature certainty is the enemy of the truth.

Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.

Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

Don’t grow accustomed to living with less, doing less, and being less to the point that you eventually sit back and accept it.

I want people to draw strength from me.