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

An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight… the truly wise person is colorblind.

If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.

I have to be seen to be believed.

Being ‚contented‘ ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position.

We identify in our experience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us.

The worst times were the years I was alone. The image to the public entering the courtroom was eight men, of a certain size, and then this little woman sitting to the side. That was not a good image for the public to see.

Whenever a fellow tells me he’s bipartisan, I know he’s going to vote against me.

The Public is merely a multiplied ‚me.‘

You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own. It’s just a matter of paying attention to this miracle.

As soon as I hear a sound, it always suggests a mood to me.

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.

One likes people much better when they’re battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.

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

If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.

For me, the world that I inhabit in reality is probably a very different world than the one people expect that I would be in.

Fiction is like a spider’s web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.

Everybody is idealistic when you’re a kid.

I don’t notice anybody unless they look great, and every now and again they do, and they are usually 70.

Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.

It’s very difficult for the American people to believe that our government, one of the richest on Earth, is also one of the stingiest on Earth.

There are definitely people who disagree with certain creative decisions you make. Pleasing everyone is pretty hard.

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.

Reality is a sliding door.

I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.

When one’s expectations are reduced to zero, one really appreciates everything one does have.

The philosophical question before us is, when we make an observation of our track in the past, does the result of our observation become real in the same sense that the final state would be defined if an outside observer were to make the observation?

Sooner or later we’re all someone’s dog.

The narrow bandwidth of TV has made us think that we are stupider than we are.

It’s a lot easier to stay idealistic if you don’t sign two to five next-of-kin letters every day.

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.

As a rule, men worry more about what they can’t see than about what they can.

It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.

You can’t be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who’s for you and who’s against you.

Human nature is not nearly as bad as it has been thought to be.

There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.

Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope, and that enables you to laugh at life’s realities.

I’ll tell you one thing, since I’m married, single people look absolutely ridiculous to me.

I can be almost terminally grief-stricken because things are so dire, but at the same time, there’s a real lightheartedness about just the recoverability of life, of how things change, how they’re not the same, ever again.

I always kind of see how I want things to be better, and I’m generally not happy with how things are or the level of service that we’re providing for people or the quality of the teams that we built. But if you look at this objectively, we’re doing so well on so many of these things. I think it’s important to have gratitude for that.

Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world.

See things from the boy’s point of view.

See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise, you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists forget that.

I try to look on all the great things God’s done, and not focus on the negative. It’s a perspective.

I wouldn’t say that anyone in fashion is on my side. I don’t think there’s anyone on my side.

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

Truths and roses have thorns about them.

There is no unique picture of reality.

Some people mistakenly think nature is very nice and benevolent and never betrays.

Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.

I don’t want people to think of me as sexy.

When somewhat at a distance, I cannot hear the high tones of instruments, voices. In speaking, it is not surprising that there are people who have never noticed it, for as a rule I am absent-minded, and they account for it in that way.

I’ve always felt like there was a lot of hype around me even when there wasn’t. I felt like everyone was talking about me even when no one was talking about me.

It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow’s viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.

There is love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look.

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

I confused things with their names: that is belief.

I like being able to be on the inside of music, rather than on the outside listening to it.

This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.