I live in a crazy time.

Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.

All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.

I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don’t let anybody tell you different.

My life is my argument.

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.

There’s only one thing that can kill the movies, and that’s education.

Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Death is a fearful thing.

I think one of the great things about the United States has been our ability to maintain a distinction between our military and domestic law enforcement.

Change alone is unchanging.

I have rules for a lot of areas of my life. Love is not going to be one of them.

He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.

We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man.

There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.

Children are all foreigners.

There has to be a global mission of human progress.

Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.

Obedience to God is the pathway to the life you really want to live.

What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning.

Life must be lived as play.

Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.

For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

Chance is an element of life. What I try to do is study what I call the mechanics of reality as carefully as I can.

Life is a lively process of becoming.

I don’t think that faith, whatever you’re being faithful about, really can be scientifically explained. And I don’t want to explain this whole life business through truth, science. There’s so much mystery. There’s so much awe.

Life is an ordeal, albeit an exciting one, but I wouldn’t trade it for the good old days of poverty and obscurity.

Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.

If we go on your iPhone and go to the dictionary and look up ‚humble,‘ 80 per cent of the definition is negative. It’s a controlling word. It’s a way to control the masses and to control the sheep.

There’s place and means for every man alive.

Without music, life would be a mistake.

Our heart glows, and secret unrest gnaws at the root of our being. Dealing with the unconscious has become a question of life for us.

The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.

Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

It’s not morbid to talk about death. Most people don’t worry about death, they worry about a bad death.

I don’t follow politics much.

No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.

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

To terrify children with the image of hell… to consider women an inferior creation. Is that good for 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.

For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.

No one can say, ‚I have dropped out – I am no longer in the system.‘ When you’re in prison, you’re even closer to the system: you feel it more, and you might be in there for whatever reason. You don’t transform the system as an absolute thing.

So thoroughly and sincerely are we compelled to live, reverencing our life, and denying the possibility of change. This is the only way, we say; but there are as many ways as there can be drawn radii from one centre. All change is a miracle to contemplate; but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant.

We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

It all went wrong with football, the thing I loved most of all, and from there, my life slowly fell apart.

All impeachments, I guess, are political.

The life which men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others?

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.

I’ve been fortunate to have had the life I had prior to Hollywood. I wasn’t starving; I was going to eat the next day.

Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.

The paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.

Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.

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

The problem is when that fun stuff becomes the habit. And I think that’s what’s happened in our culture. Fast food has become the everyday meal.

My work is about my life, and what I want to do with it.

The upward course of a nation’s history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.

Passions are the gales of life.