Bo Bennett

Times have not become more violent. They have just become more televised.

If the human mind was simple enough to understand, we’d be too simple to understand it.

I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages.

When you don’t have much money, you worry that they’ll just put you in the ground someplace and your loved ones won’t know where you are.

Being home alone at night makes me a bit nervous. If I’m at home alone, I have to sleep on the sofa – I can’t face going to bed. I’m there with the TV on and all the lights on. I’m not very brave about anything in life. In tennis, yes. In everything else, not very.

I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

Most choices are driven by immediate results.

No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.

The only thing you can give a man without hurting him is an opportunity.

Only when you are kinder to yourself, you can be kinder to the world.

The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.

You can’t change what you don’t acknowledge.

I no longer feel the need of seeking out conscious Americanism. Because we live here and work here, we can be certain that when our music is mature it will also be American in quality.

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands but seeing with new eyes.

Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.