We should all start to live before we get too old.

Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

I’m grateful to intelligent people. That doesn’t mean educated. That doesn’t mean intellectual. I mean really intelligent. What black old people used to call ‚mother wit‘ means intelligence that you had in your mother’s womb. That’s what you rely on. You know what’s right to do.

It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.

I would fain grow old learning many things.

I’m more of a realist when it comes to life, and I’d much rather my mother be in a spiritual place in Heaven than in a bed, sick, fighting for her life.

When one has finished building one’s house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really needed to know in the worst way – before one began.

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Whoever doesn’t know it must learn and find by experience that ‚a quiet conscience makes one strong!‘

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it – this is knowledge.

People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can’t fool the neighbors.

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.

No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.

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

The honor of a nation is its life.

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.

Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared.

Without stirring abroad, One can know the whole world; Without looking out of the window One can see the way of heaven. The further one goes The less one knows.

I have lived long enough both in years and in accomplishments.

My grandmother is over eighty and still doesn’t need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle.

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

I think it would be interesting if old people got anti-Alzheimer’s disease where they slowly began to recover other people’s lost memories.

I think it’s good for a woman to put on a bit of weight when she gets older – it looks better. But a man has to stay balanced.

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.

The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.

Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternity.

Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.

The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.

In such a porcelain life, one likes to be sure that all is well lest one stumble upon one’s hopes in a pile of broken crockery.

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

Basketball is booming, and it’s not just an Under Armour standpoint: it’s about the game itself. Kids going out and playing and being inspired by what we do on the court.

Life is very difficult. One of the most ancient of religious ideas that emerges everywhere, I would say, is that life is essentially suffering.

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life’s July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November.

When I write about a 15-year old, I jump, I return to the days when I was that age. It’s like a time machine. I can remember everything. I can feel the wind. I can smell the air. Very actually. Very vividly.

Modern science says: ‚The sun is the past, the earth is the present, the moon is the future.‘ From an incandescent mass we have originated, and into a frozen mass we shall turn. Merciless is the law of nature, and rapidly and irresistibly we are drawn to our doom.

Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as knowing what to do next.

I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom… in a clarification of life – not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.

There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.

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

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

It is easy to dismiss the world as ‚irrelevant,‘ or consumed by ‚paranoid anti-Americanism,‘ but perhaps not wise.

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?

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?

Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life: he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.

I believe that God put us in this jolly world to be happy and enjoy life.

Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world.

We humans have lost the wisdom of genuinely resting and relaxing. We worry too much. We don’t allow our bodies to heal, and we don’t allow our minds and hearts to heal.

Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.

I just don’t have time to get old!

The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.

If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.

I think that there is never an indispensable leader, you know? I think that there is a time with dignity that one needs to leave.

He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.

You are doomed to make choices. This is life’s greatest paradox.