We’re all going to die, all of us; what a circus! That alone should make us love each other, but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities. We are eaten up by nothing.

Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.

When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

Music is everybody’s possession. It’s only publishers who think that people own it.

What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.

Men who think that a woman’s past love affairs lessen her love for them are usually stupid and weak.

No finite point has meaning without an infinite reference point.

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

I am who I am today because of my mother.

It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?

Man’s true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good.

If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.

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

Ask an older person you respect to tell you his or her greatest regret.

Never in any case say I have lost such a thing, but I have returned it. Is your child dead? It is a return. Is your wife dead? It is a return. Are you deprived of your estate? Is not this also a return?

Seeing is not always believing.

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.

Like a pianist runs her fingers over the keys, I’ll search my mind for what to say. Now, the poem may want you to write it. And then sometimes you see a situation and think, ‚I’d like to write about that.‘ Those are two different ways of being approached by a poem, or approaching a poem.

Millions of people die every day. Everyone’s got to go sometime.

Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.

The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love.

I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?

The worst men often give the best advice.

For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love.

Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.

The loss of life will be irreplaceable.

How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?

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

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.

Everything is funny, as long as it’s happening to somebody else.

Nobody enjoys the ‚little show about nothing‘ humor more than me, but that is never the way I look at it.

It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

War is so complex; human nature is so complex. There’s no filmmaker who has ever figured it out perfectly.

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.

Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty damn good.

The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.

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.

Lo, what huge heaps of littleness around!

The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.

What’s the use of happiness? It can’t buy you money.

For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?

I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth.

Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it?

I’m not claiming divinity. I’ve never claimed purity of soul. I’ve never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can… But I still believe in peace, love and understanding.

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.

It’s not the destination that matters. It’s the change of scene.

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

Someday I want to have children and give them all the love I never had.

If I held you any closer I would be on the other side of you.

I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.

Love can do much, but duty more.

To love someone means to see him as God intended him.

My gold, my money couldn’t stop cancer from appearing on my body. If they can’t save me, then I don’t need them.

Though lovers be lost, love shall not.

On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.

There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.

It’s important to love in hip hop.