There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.

Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.

When you give, it comes back to you.

I think everyone should be with who they love.

Love is an interesting thing.

Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.

When you’re writing a novel, you don’t want the reader to come out of it voting yes or no to some question. Life is more complicated than that. Reality simply consists of different points of view.

In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.

No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned… a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.

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

Freedom without limits is just a word.

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man’s self.

If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.

Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.

As you get older, time speeds up but life slows down.

We love things we love what they are.

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don’t, they never were.

Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.

What is the Tao Te Ching? Five hundred years before the birth of Jesus, a God-realized being named Lao-tzu in ancient China dictated 81 verses which are regarded by many as the ultimate commentary on the nature of existence.

When I was nine years old, living on the south side of Chicago, my father was a minister and my mother used to scrub floors. I had seven brothers and four sisters. I told my mama, ‚One of these days I’m going to be big and strong and buy you a beautiful house.‘ That’s all I’ve ever wanted to do with my life, is to take care of my mother.

The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice.

It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.

Neil Young is my hero, and such a great example. You know what that guy has been doing for the past 40 years? Making music. That’s what that guy does. Sometimes you pay attention, sometimes you don’t. Sometimes he hands it to you, sometimes he keeps it to himself. He’s a good man with a beautiful family and wonderful life.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

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

Your philosophy determines whether you will go for the disciplines or continue the errors.

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.

Religion is the opium of the masses.

Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.

To be loved is very demoralizing.

Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.

There is no love of life without despair of life.

Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.

The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.

The brain is wider than the sky.

Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.

If a man had more than one life, I think a little hanging would not hurt this one; but after he is once dead, we cannot bring him back, no matter how sorry we may be; so the boy shall be pardoned.

When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.

It is the greatest of all advantages to enjoy no advantage at all.

I’m drawn to bad romances.

I am a part of everything that I have read.

But I think there are a set of experiences that turn a potential writer into a working writer, and then there are places in your life were you start to recognize what you want to do.

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

I liked his ability to deal with a lot of the negativity that surrounded him. Even though he was in a world that he didn’t want to be in, he still saw the bigger picture.

Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.

If you study the writings of the mystics, you will always find things in them that appear to be paradoxes, as in Zen, particularly.

The whole is more than the sum of its parts.

Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet’s heart when caught and tangled in a woman’s body?

I think the brain is essentially a computer and consciousness is like a computer program. It will cease to run when the computer is turned off. Theoretically, it could be re-created on a neural network, but that would be very difficult, as it would require all one’s memories.

Man and animals are in reality vehicles and conduits of food, tombs of animals, hostels of Death, coverings that consume, deriving life by the death of others.

But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man’s eyes.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.

We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven.

There are three constants in life… change, choice and principles.

The false is nothing but an imitation of the true.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.

I love Notting Hill and Westbourne Grove – there is so much life and vitality around Portobello and Ladbroke Grove. It has come up a lot since I started Virgin more than 40 years ago, but there is so much character.

Peace is liberty in tranquillity.