I’m too busy acting like I’m not Naive. I’ve seen it all, I was here first.

Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.

When you stop caring what people think, you lose your capacity for connection. When you’re defined by it, you lose our capacity for vulnerability.

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

I think I have a dualistic nature.

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.

The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all.

If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.

I am absolutely my own biggest critic.

When I write, it’s like choosing which shoes I’m going to put on. More often than not, my lyrics are personal – but I sometimes have to put myself in other people’s shoes.

Before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.

I don’t think that experience is a very useful or convincing attribute for a sensible foreign policy. Henry Kissinger had a lot of experience.

A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.

I think my worst problem is actually living in the moment and understanding everything that’s going on. I feel like I’m in my own bubble.

Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

Let’s just be smart this time. I’m looking for smart.

The person who doesn’t scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs.

In the studio, we adhere to a strict colour code. Developed over decades, the colour code consists of a finite and precise colour palate… The whole world as we experience it comes to us through the mystic realm of colour.

Ultimately, a real understanding of history means that we face nothing new under the sun.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself now and then in finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.

A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.

You can always cope with the present moment, but you cannot cope with something that is only a mind projection – you cannot cope with the future.

Reactive people… are often affected by their physical environment. They find external sources to blame for their behavior.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

I think Himalayan climbers tend to mature fairly late. I think most of the successful Himalayan climbers have ranged from 28 to just over 40, really.

Every step of life shows much caution is required.

One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.

As a lifestyle you always being the focal point is innately unhealthy.

The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.

The moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.

Sometimes, I want to talk on a song and be angry, because I am angry. Then there’s always a part of me that remembers that this record lives past my being angry, and so do I really want to be angry about that? Is that feeling going to have longevity?

I can’t tell anybody else how to run their life or their business, but I really believe I’ve got a good bead on myself.

We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value.

Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.

I think I have always had a little humor.

There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.

Little things affect little minds.

Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.

Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.

The self is hateful.

No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.

I actually don’t want a throne at all, because I don’t view myself as a queen; I view myself as one of my fans.

When did I know I had talent? I think it started when I first started playing sports, organized sports.

As human beings, we are all not conducting just one narrative but many narratives all at the same time.

My ‚fear‘ is my substance, and probably the best part of me.

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.

My lectures, based on Islamic teachings, were on various subjects. Some of the titles were, ‚The Intoxication of Life,‘ ‚The Purpose of Life,‘ ‚The Real Cause of Man’s Distress,‘ ‚The Journey to the Goal in Life,‘ and, one of my favorites, ‚The Heart of Man.‘ They contained important insights that spoke to something deep inside me.

Some people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives they must live.

Is the babe young? When I behold it, it seems more venerable than the oldest man.

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

It’s possible – you can never know – that the universe exists only for me. If so, it’s sure going well for me, I must admit.

The Edge… there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.