‚Tis better to bear the ills we have than fly to others that we know not of.

We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay – and rise!

No obligation to do the impossible is binding.

I thought ‚Heller‘ was a very bad decision.

You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.

No one’s policing their own minds more than an author. You spend a lot of time in your own head analysing what you think about things, and a philosophy comes.

Men’s ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.

Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.

You can’t have a value structure without a hierarchy. They’re the same thing because a value structure means one thing takes precedence over another.

Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.

The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks.

Man’s greatness lies in his power of thought.

Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.

Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression.

My one big regret is that I didn’t play on for ten more years.

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

I don’t think there’s any point going for second or third.

If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.

Life isn’t meant to be easy. It’s hard to take being on the top – or on the bottom. I guess I’m something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things… Life is one crisis after another.

Life is the childhood of our immortality.

One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?

No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

Early on, when I was quite young and going from job to job, I was foolish enough to sometimes speak to my fellow workers: ‚Hey, the boss can come in here at any moment and lay all of us off, just like that, don’t you realize that?‘ They would just look at me. I was posing something that they didn’t want to enter their minds.

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

Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.

People want to go out and travel around and meet cool people. I could just go live in Vermont, but is that what I really want?

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.

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.

Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.

One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.

All generalizations are false, including this one.

Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.

I always say, decisions I make, I live with them. There’s always ways you can correct them or ways you can do them better. At the end of the day, I live with them.

Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.

If you make up your own mind, you can only blame yourself.

Nothing in life is promised except death.

The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?

Israel was not created in order to disappear – Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.

The uncertainty of parenting can bring up feelings in us that range from frustration to terror.

Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.

Mysteries are not necessarily miracles.

Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.

I think one of the basic reasons men make good friends is that they can make up their minds quickly.

If I think too hard about a relationship, I’ll talk myself out of it.

Shakespeare – I was very influenced – still am – by Shakespeare. I couldn’t believe that a white man in the 16th century could so know my heart.

The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.

I really want to love somebody. I do. I just don’t know if it’s possible forever and ever.

If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt.

I believe in believing. My coach John Kavanagh is a big atheist, and he is always trying to persuade people to his way of thinking, and I think, ‚What a waste of energy.‘ If people want to believe in this god or that god, that’s fine by me; believe away. But I think we can be our own gods. I believe in myself.

If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.

From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.

We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

You are the universe, you aren’t in the universe.

I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

To summarize, draft resistance can make use of the inegalitarian nature of American society as a technique for increasing the cost of American aggression, and it threatens values that are important to those in a decision-making position.

The safest course is to do nothing against one’s conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.