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

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature’s way.

It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

If I had chosen the populist course, it would have been a breach of the trust placed in me by the people.

A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.

Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions.

What goes up must come down.

What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end.

Since God created the world, He also created reality.

It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.

The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.

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

Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.

Man – a being in search of meaning.

I draw from the Absurd three consequences: my revolt, my liberty, my passion.

The ‚I think‘ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‚I breathe‘ which actually does accompany them.

Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.

The way is long if one follows precepts, but short… if one follows patterns.

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

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

My justification is that most people my age spend a lot of time thinking about what they’re going to do for the next five or ten years. The time they spend thinking about their life, I just spend drinking.

Life is an ordeal, albeit an exciting one, but I wouldn’t trade it for the good old days of poverty and obscurity.

What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?

Fiction is like a spider’s web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.

Death is not the worst that can happen to men.

If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans.

The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Whoever will be born must destroy a world.

I think life is a matter of choices and that wherever we are, good or bad, is because of choices we make.

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

Once I’ve decided to do something, I do usually try to carry it through to fruition.

Except for the young or very happy, I can’t say I am sorry for anyone who dies.

My biographers… would like to have my time at the court almost complete before they finish the book. We decided… to flip the order.

The earth belongs to the living, not to the dead.

If you don’t live your life, then who will?

A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.

Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

I have not endorsed Trump and will not do so.

Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe.

There’s nothing you can know that isn’t known.

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.

Which death is preferably to every other? ‚The unexpected‘.

If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.

I don’t want to spend money the club doesn’t have; I don’t want to hold a player that doesn’t want to stay.

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

Theology is unnecessary.

In matters of truth the fact that you don’t want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it.

One aspect of appellate judging is we have to give reasons for all of our decisions. And when you sit down and try to write it out, sometimes you find that your first judgment wasn’t the right one.

And it comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don’t get on the wrong track or try to do too much. We’re always thinking about new markets we could enter, but it’s only by saying no that you can concentrate on the things that are really important.

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.

The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was.

Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.

Stupidity has a knack of getting its way.

There’s place and means for every man alive.

If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.

On the court, I want to try and get to the free-throw line a little more. And as a point guard, you can always get better at your decision-making and limiting your mistakes.

Being prime minister is a lonely job… you cannot lead from the crowd.