We live in ugly times.

When you go to war as a boy, you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed, not you… Then, when you are badly wounded the first time, you lose that illusion, and you know it can happen to you.

I’m seeing the world partially through the eyes of a kid. Not all the time. There’s no black and white to it. But sometimes I’m seeing it like I’m 4.

Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.

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

There is so much that people take for granted.

Do everything as in the eye of another.

When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people.

Let it be our delight to find our society in the circle of which Jesus is the center, and let us make those our friends who are the friends of Jesus.

Few people have the imagination for reality.

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

My justification is that most people my age spend a lot of time thinking about what they’re going to do for the next five or ten years. The time they spend thinking about their life, I just spend drinking.

Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.

I’ve never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It’s probably because they have forgotten their own.

Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories – and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories.

What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity.

If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person’s point of view and see things from that person’s angle as well as from your own.

I’m not a good storm-outer… because I forget stuff.

I have observed that society in general always seems to honor its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.

Once you get into this great stream of history, you can’t get out.

If workers are more insecure, that’s very ‚healthy‘ for the society, because if workers are insecure, they won’t ask for wages, they won’t go on strike, they won’t call for benefits; they’ll serve the masters gladly and passively. And that’s optimal for corporations‘ economic health.

Men have become the tools of their tools.

I had this child, and it destroyed my family.

It’s lack that gives us inspiration. It’s not fullness.

Truths and roses have thorns about them.

Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.

He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.

I have this feeling that the world is not in balance. And people are afraid, but we’re also starting to be really brave.

All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.

As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.

Music is always a commentary on society.

When you’re doing a film and the majority of the film is cast black, for me, it’s most important to get people to view those movies as just movies, as just good movies. At the end of the day, regardless of the color of the cast, we’re all doing the same thing in this business: trying to make a good film.

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.

The more people smoke herb, the more Babylon fall.

I do understand it’s not easy to run an I-league club. I have been part of many and I know the scene.

I don’t know if I particularly want to be remembered for anything. I personally do not think I’m a great gift to the world. I’ve been very fortunate.

I’m rather kind of old school, thinking that when an artist does his work, it’s no longer his… I just see what people make of it.

The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.

The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.

It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.

I don’t feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.

An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or which finds us first. We are always ripe and ready to be taken.

A lot of people are bored of all the political correctness.

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

Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.

I don’t follow politics much.

I have to admit I’ve found myself doing the same things that a lot of other rock stars do or are forced to do. Which is not being able to respond to mail, not being able to keep up on current music, and I’m pretty much locked away a lot. The outside world is pretty foreign to me.

Humanity, you never had it to begin with.

The idea is to try to give all the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgment in one particular direction or another.

The people of England are the most enthusiastic in the world.

The love of the family, the love of one person can heal. It heals the scars left by a larger society. A massive, powerful society.

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

In a magazine, one can get – from cover to cover – 15 to 20 different ideas about life and how to live it.

A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.

Speaking English is like tongue-twist for me. I can speak each word perfect, but then you have to string them together like, ‚Blah, blah, blah.‘ That’s when I get crazy.

A man’s as miserable as he thinks he is.

I think everyone should approach relationships from the perspective of playing it straight and giving someone the benefit of the doubt. Until he establishes that this is a game. And if it’s a game, you need to win. The best thing to do is just walk away from the table.