Their mothers had finally caught up to them and been proven right. There were consequences after all but they were the consequences to things you didn’t even know you’d done.

The fact is, violence is not only not a beautiful thing, but it’s also very painful and not without consequences for the perpetrator as well as the victim.

I don’t think I’ve ever felt that same kind of peace, the kind of serenity that I felt after acknowledging that maybe I was going to die of this TB.

He that sows thorns should never go barefoot.

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.

Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.

It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn’t feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.

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?

Kids end up seeing my movies anyway but some of the mothers get mad at me so I figured I’d make one that I can’t get yelled at for.

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‚Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.

We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.

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

Dying is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down.

I was born realizing the flaws in the criminal justice system.

Once you get into this great stream of history, you can’t get out.

Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.

What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt?

What’s done can’t be undone.

The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea.

I always kind of see how I want things to be better, and I’m generally not happy with how things are or the level of service that we’re providing for people or the quality of the teams that we built. But if you look at this objectively, we’re doing so well on so many of these things. I think it’s important to have gratitude for that.

It is a curious thing: man, the centre and creator of all science, is the only object which our science has not yet succeeded in including in a homogeneous representation of the universe. We know the history of his bones, but no ordered place has yet been found in nature for his reflective intelligence.

It is a common saying, and in everybody’s mouth, that life is but a sojourn.

As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And what do I do with the time I’ve got left?

Throughout my years in business, I discovered something. I would always ask why you do things. The answers that I would invariably get are: ‚Oh, that’s just the way things are done around here.‘ Nobody knows why they do what they do. Nobody thinks very deeply about things in business.

Whenever I think of the past, it brings back so many memories.

I was sure I’d set the world on fire, and it was hard for a young feller like me to realize the truth – that I hadn’t set the world on fire, and I was totally unprepared to handle the consequences if ‚The Big Trail‘ had been a success and launched me as a star.

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.

I’m living in the present, thinking about the past, hoping for the future.

It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.

A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.

It is comforting to reflect that the disproportion of things in the world seems to be only arithmetical.

To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.

The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.

I restore myself when I’m alone.

I let people fill in the blanks on their own. If they want to think about their ex, that’s fine. If they want to think about maybe who one of my exes is, then that’s fine. And it might not be right, because I’m the only one who knows what these songs are really about. It’s the one shred of privacy I have in the matter.

Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.

Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee… I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the power for what I must do now.

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

When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

You always have to remember that if you say something negative, it’s going to come back to haunt you.

Our necessities never equal our wants.

I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.

The act of dying is one of the acts of life.

Only when the tide goes out do you discover who’s been swimming naked.

The drama and the trauma of the relationship you have when you’re 16 can mirror the one you have when you’re 26. Life repeats itself.

In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.

The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.

Every time I plant a seed, He say kill it before it grow, he say kill it before they grow.

If some years were added to my life, I would give fifty to the study of the Yi, and then I might come to be without great faults.

A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.

Every once in a while, you let a word or phrase out and you want to catch it and bring it back. You can’t do that. It’s gone, gone forever.

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wonder is the basis of worship.

Ordinary readers, forgive my paradoxes: one must make them when one reflects; and whatever you may say, I prefer being a man with paradoxes than a man with prejudices.

I think that all things, in their way, reflect heavenly truth, the imagination not least.

I realized the power of hip-hop. I realized how influential this music and this culture are.

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven’t committed.

My grandfather was smart and had a whole lot of pride. He didn’t speak a terrible amount, but you could tell there was a ton on his mind – like a quiet acceptance of how life had turned out.

I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.