Superstition is the poetry of life.

There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance.

I think Bible principles are principles for life.

Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.

As soon as there is life there is danger.

Europe has what we do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a word, of tragedy. And we have what they sorely need: a sense of life’s possibilities.

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

For me, a paragraph in a novel is a bit like a line in a poem. It has its own shape, its own music, its own integrity.

We all gonna die eventually from something or other, but don’t be a wimp. Put up a good fight.

As a Humanist, I love science. I hate superstition, which could never have given us A-bombs.

At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.

Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one’s own religion.

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.

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

All religions must be tolerated… for every man must get to heaven in his own way.

A poet can survive everything but a misprint.

Life’s too short to hang out with people who aren’t resourceful.

They would not find me changed from him they knew – only more sure of all I thought was true.

Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.

If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation before birth.

If I were a woman, I would love to have lots of kids. But for men, I don’t believe in it.

They are resilient children, but they are children, and as much as they need help to understand the hard truths in life, they also need what we all need – protection and love.

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.

There’s an ecstatic side to writing. It’s like jazz. It just has a life.

I think life on Earth must be about more than just solving problems… It’s got to be something inspiring, even if it is vicarious.

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

I’m half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times. It’s best not to ask questions and just enjoy.

Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.

Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.

My life is my argument.

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind.

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

Life must be lived as play.

Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven.

For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can’t be wrong whose life is in the right.

There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.

One who does not know when to die, does not know how to live.

Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one’s aim.

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It’s perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we’ve learned something from yesterday.

It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably.

What the Pope thinks of being gay does not matter to the world. It matters to the people who like the Pope and follow the Pope… It is not a reflection of all religious people.

It is only a man’s own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else’s meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.

Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.

It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.

Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

I think a poet is anybody who wouldn’t call himself a poet.

There are some people who need to wear a label round their necks to show that they are Christians at all, or else we might mistake them for sinners, their actions are so like those of the ungodly.

If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own.

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

My life is the road, man. I need to keep moving.

Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.

The poets are only the interpreters of the gods.

The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

I have such incredible experiences in my life.

The only length of life that seems to satisfy the longings of the human heart is life everlasting.

Dogmas are collective conceptual prisons. And the strange thing is that people love their prison cells because they give them a sense of security and a false sense of ‚I know.‘ Nothing has inflicted more suffering on humanity than its dogmas.

It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.