If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.

If you had your life to live over again, do it overseas.

We should all start to live before we get too old.

We can’t form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.

I liked his ability to deal with a lot of the negativity that surrounded him. Even though he was in a world that he didn’t want to be in, he still saw the bigger picture.

Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.

It seems the older you get, the more life comes into focus.

It is better to live rich than to die rich.

There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.

Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.

Don’t despair, not even over the fact that you don’t despair.

It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

I love the sea.

And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder, the means by which we are translated?

Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being.

Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.

Treat your children like the blessings they are or don’t have them at all.

How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?

The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife.

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

In a way, the whole tangible universe itself is a vast residue, a skeleton of countless lives that have germinated in it and have left it, leaving behind them only a trifling, infinitesimal part of their riches.

No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.

Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

The best way to know God is to love many things.

The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.

To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one’s being added to that being.

One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.

If you’re doing a biography, you try to stay as accurate as possible to reality. But you really don’t know what was going on in the person’s mind. You just know what was going on in the minds of people around him.

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy’s ranks.

When I get up and work out, I’m working out just as much for my girls as I am for me, because I want them to see a mother who loves them dearly, who invests in them, but who also invests in herself. It’s just as much about letting them know as young women that it is okay to put yourself a little higher on your priority list.

Change alone is unchanging.

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

I pledge allegiance to the Christian flag, and to the Savior, for whose Kingdom it stands, one Savior, crucified, risen, and coming again, with life and liberty for all who believe.

Religion and philosophy are to be preserved distinct. We are not to introduce divine revelations into philosophy, nor philosophical opinions into religion.

Life is tragic. You are tiny and flawed and ignorant and weak, and everything else is huge, complex, and overwhelming.

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.

The true face of smoking is disease, death and horror – not the glamour and sophistication the pushers in the tobacco industry try to portray.

As I grow up, the lessons I learn in love and relationships and how we treat each other are hopefully maturing – hopefully.

There is no object so large but that at a great distance from the eye it does not appear smaller than a smaller object near.

All truth is simple… is that not doubly a lie?

There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.

I love stuff from the Holy Land. It makes me feel blessed.

The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

All religions try to benefit people, with the same basic message of the need for love and compassion, for justice and honesty, for contentment.

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.

I think, in politics, half the people are gonna like you, and half the people are not gonna like you, no matter what you do or what you say… It’s like there are no right answers. If there were, everyone would choose the right answers. They’re all opinions.

Life is abundant, and life is beautiful. And it’s a good place that we’re all in, you know, on this earth, if we take care of it.

Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.

We must restore hope to young people, help the old, be open to the future, spread love. Be poor among the poor. We need to include the excluded and preach peace.

There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman.

When I was nine years old, living on the south side of Chicago, my father was a minister and my mother used to scrub floors. I had seven brothers and four sisters. I told my mama, ‚One of these days I’m going to be big and strong and buy you a beautiful house.‘ That’s all I’ve ever wanted to do with my life, is to take care of my mother.