Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

The statesman’s duty is to bridge the gap between his nation’s experience and his vision.

God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.

Do not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees are cut down while crooked ones are left standing.

How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?

When one’s expectations are reduced to zero, one really appreciates everything one does have.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.

Fame will go by and, so long, I’ve had you, fame. If it goes by, I’ve always known it was fickle. So at least it’s something I experience, but that’s not where I live.

The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.

I guess maybe when you get past 70, other people start asking you how you feel.

Mars is the only place in the solar system where it’s possible for life to become multi-planetarian.

In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure; in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it is excessively discussed.

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

I like being able to be on the inside of music, rather than on the outside listening to it.

And were an epitaph to be my story I’d have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.

We all get weary sometimes, and we tend to think that life is what makes us weary.

If everything isn’t black and white, I say, ‚Why the hell not?‘

They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve.

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.

Life is precious.

I say what I want to say and do what I want to do. There’s no in between. People will either love you for it or hate you for it.

Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.

The true history of my administration will be written 50 years from now, and you and I will not be around to see it.

Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death’s the other.

I don’t have a problem with Hulk Hogan. People say things and do things, and who am I to judge?

There’s no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.

Life in abundance comes only through great love.

A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over… is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen.

Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.

One word from the Lord is like a piece of gold to a believer, who is like a jeweler, shaping and hammering out the promise for a number of weeks.

Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.

Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.

The idea is to try to give all the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgment in one particular direction or another.

I was born during the war and grew up in a time of rationing. We didn’t have anything. It’s influenced the way I look at the world.

Worshipping is stripping ourselves of our idols, even the most hidden ones, and choosing the Lord as the centre, as the highway of our lives.

I grew up in a very nice house in Houston, went to private school all my life and I’ve never even been to the ‚hood. Not that there’s anything wrong with the ‚hood.

The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.

If he have faith, the believer cannot be restrained. He betrays himself. He breaks out. He confesses and teaches this gospel to the people at the risk of life itself.

As you know, I’m an immigrant. I came over here as an immigrant, and what gave me the opportunities, what made me to be here today, is the open arms of Americans. I have been received. I have been adopted by America.

Everybody is idealistic when you’re a kid.

Each part of my life provided respite from the other and gave me a sense of proportion that classmates trained only on law studies lacked.

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.

Our life is made by the death of others.

Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.

No one can pass through life, any more than he can pass through a bit of country, without leaving tracks behind, and those tracks may often be helpful to those coming after him in finding their way.

We spend our lives, all of us, waiting for the great day, the great battle, or the deed of power. But that external consummation is not given to many: nor is it necessary. So long as our being is tensed, directed with passion, towards that which is the spirit of all things, then that spirit will emerge from our own hidden, nameless effort.

I never woke up and thought, ‚I really want to live a bold life.‘

Why are our days numbered and not, say, lettered?

Ageing’s alright, better than the alternative, which is not being here.

I tried being reasonable, I didn’t like it.

I write for myself things that I’ve gone through.

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.

Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.

A tree’s a tree. How many more do you need to look at?

I see the world in black and white, and I don’t like compromising.

You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.

I always was a rich person because money’s not related to happiness.

The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.

What we live by we die by.