There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.

Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

To me, comedy is just twisting reality. It’s commenting or observing or twisting life.

Physical comforts cannot subdue mental suffering, and if we look closely, we can see that those who have many possessions are not necessarily happy. In fact, being wealthy often brings even more anxiety.

Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom.

If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help… Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business – you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

God didn’t make me to make movies, flex muscles, buy gold. What you love the most becomes your God… If I never make another dollar, my life is complete.

I have lived long enough to satisfy both nature and glory.

The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled.

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.

A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life: he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.

Things don’t have to change the world to be important.

In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.

When I would hear the rabbi tell about some miracle such as a bush whose leaves were shaking but there wasn’t any wind, I would try to fit the miracle into the real world and explain it in terms of natural phenomena.

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

I think that we all know what evil is. We have a sense of what’s evil, and certainly killing innocent people is evil. We’re less sure about what is good. There’s sort of good, good enough, could be better – but absolute good is a little harder to define.

One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much.

You’re never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you’re never as bad as they say when you lose.

I’m half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times.

In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory.

The way people look at me these days – that’s the same way I looked at President Obama before I met him. We tend to forget that people who’ve attained a certain position are human.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

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.

Sometimes we look back and 10 years from now we think, ‚Boy, those were great old days.‘ Well, you know, we’re living in the good old days.

A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone; and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.

A child thinks 20 shillings and 20 years can scarce ever be spent.

The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.

Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.

Create a ladder of values and priorities in your life, reminding yourself of what really matters to you.

We view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes; we have no wish to find them alike.

Money doesn’t make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million.

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.

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.

When I first went to places where people were suffering from war and persecution, I felt ashamed of my feelings of sadness. I could see more possibilities in my life.

For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can’t be wrong whose life is in the right.

There are no moral phenomena at all, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena.

If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it.

People only see what they are prepared to see.

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.

Each day provides its own gifts.

I believe that my parents did wonderful things for us.

If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.

If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat.

I had a much better view with the halo than I expected.

We conceal it from ourselves in vain – we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.

When you practice gratefulness, there is a sense of respect toward others.

No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned… a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.

Our greatness has always come from people who expect nothing and take nothing for granted – folks who work hard for what they have, then reach back and help others after them.

It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world to the other.

The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom… in a clarification of life – not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.

It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.

I feel like the way I was raised was to be able to see through all the titles in this world – from religion to race.

I can’t believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.

I defy gravity.

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.