Reality has a way of intruding. Reality eventually intrudes on everything.

The passive aggressive arguer comes armed with tricky tactics. They cannot take the risk that they might be wrong: their self-esteem is too intertwined with their opinions. It is more important to affirm their rightness, and sense of superiority, than to arrive at the truth.

In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

But men must know, that in this theatre of man’s life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.

Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.

Assuming if there’s such a thing as reality, if you have a false relationship with it, how can you do anything but fail?

Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.

Anyone can be a moral individual, concerned with human rights and problems; but only a college professor, a trained expert, can solve technical problems by ‚sophisticated‘ methods. Ergo, it is only problems of the latter sort that are important or real.

Don’t be a spectator, don’t let life pass you by.

Our country does not believe in the concept of your God and my God. We believe that all gods are one. We have different ways of accepting Him. All ways lead to Him.

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.

If anyone offers conjectures about the truth of things from the mere possibility of hypotheses, I do not see by what stipulation anything certain can be determined in any science, since one or another set of hypotheses may always be devised which will appear to supply new difficulties.

In assisting his ‚neighbour‘ every day to the best of his ability, and keeping truth, honesty, and kindness perpetually before him, the Boy Scout, with as little formality as possible, is pleasing God.

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.

Once you’ve grown to accept something and it becomes part of the system you’ve inherited, you don’t even notice it any longer.

Life is like a wheel. Sooner or later, it always come around to where you started again.

Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

In war, you win or lose, live or die – and the difference is just an eyelash.

Nothing in life is promised except death.

Basically, when you get to my age, you’ll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you.

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.

The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.

Whether or not I like a piece of data has very little bearing on whether or not I am likely to accept it.

I am not promising that God will give you everything you want. There are times when we want things that God knows would not be good for us.

I have long understood that losing always comes with the territory when you wander into the gambling business, just as getting crippled for life is an acceptable risk in the linebacker business. They both are extremely violent sports, and pain is part of the bargain. Buy the ticket, take the ride.

My whole life is a theater piece.

If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.

Vulnerability is about showing up and being seen. It’s tough to do that when we’re terrified about what people might see or think.

It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.

I joyfully hasten to meet death. If it come before I have had opportunity to develop all my artistic faculties, it will come, my hard fate notwithstanding, too soon, and I should probably wish it later – yet even then I shall be happy, for will it not deliver me from a state of endless suffering?

I no longer feel attracted to the well-made novel. I want to write the story that will zero in and give you intense, but not connected, moments of experience. I guess that’s the way I see life. People remake themselves bit by bit and do things they don’t understand.

Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.

And die of nothing but a rage to live.

All variety of created objects which represent order and life in the universe could happen only by the willful reasoning of its original Creator, whom I call the ‚Lord God.‘

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

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?

We live in an imperfect world, and imperfect people surround us every day.

I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.

It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful: they are found because it was possible to find them.

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

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

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.

Don’t say I hate institutionalised religion – rather than saying I hate those things, which I do not, what I’m saying is that perhaps there is a way of opening more doors, rather than closing so many.

Once you feel loved by the universe, you’re already accepted, and you’re not really concerned about offending people.

Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death.

If it’s stress of things that we cannot control, what you have to do is you mitigate that stress as much as possible. You’ve planned, you’ve trained, you’ve done everything you can in your power to mitigate the stress that’s facing you. And then after that, there’s nothing you can do. So, you have to let that one go.

I’m not trying to follow a set of rules and stuff. I’m just living my life.

Sometimes, people can be extraordinarily judgmental and closed-minded to anyone different or special, which is why it’s so hard for young people in this day and age to be comfortable enough in their own skin to not listen to the people picking on them.

One day it will be over, and I don’t care.

Things won’t get better dwelling on the past. Accept what has happened. Then move forward.

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

Then suddenly something just kicked me. I kind of woke up and realised that I was in a different atmosphere than you normally are. My immediate reaction was to back off, slow down.

The minority is sometimes right; the majority always wrong.

What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.