A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.

Your joy comes from how you think, the choices that we make in life.

It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

I’m too busy acting like I’m not Naive. I’ve seen it all, I was here first.

Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.

The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.

I never think about myself as an artist working in this time. I think about it in macro.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?

Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.

Truth cannot be brought down; rather, the individual must make the effort to ascend to it. You cannot bring the mountaintop to the valley. If you would attain to the mountaintop, you must pass through the valley, climb the steeps, unafraid of the dangerous precipices.

A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.

I was a peripheral visionary. I could see the future, but only way off to the side.

Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you’re a thousand miles from the corn field.

In the Church, and in the journey of faith, women have had and still have a special role in opening doors to the Lord.

Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. If it goes past the centre of gravity on one side, it must go a like distance on the other; and it is only after a certain time that it finds the true point at which it can remain at rest.

The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.

I have never thought it necessary to patronize the American people.

What is history but a fable agreed upon?

Ageing’s alright, better than the alternative, which is not being here.

There are no moral phenomena at all, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena.

What you put into life is what you get out of it.

Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?

There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.

I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.

I think everyone should approach relationships from the perspective of playing it straight and giving someone the benefit of the doubt. Until he establishes that this is a game. And if it’s a game, you need to win. The best thing to do is just walk away from the table.

Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is impossible to foresee this, it is impossible to be warned.

You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own. It’s just a matter of paying attention to this miracle.

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.

There are many harsh lessons to be learned from the gambling experience, but the harshest one of all is the difference between having Fun and being Smart.

There are no such things as Flowers there are only gladdened Leaves.

I don’t concern myself with award. I’d been to the party enough times to know it really didn’t matter.

Life is grim, and we don’t have to be grim all the time.

It takes no more time to see the good side of life than it takes to see the bad.

Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.

I’ll die a crazy old man!

It could be – and it has been argued, in my view rather plausibly, though neuroscientists don’t like it – that neuroscience for the last couple hundred years has been on the wrong track.

We should not look at terrorism from the nameplates – which group they belong to, what is their geographical location, who are the victims. These individual groups or names will keep changing.

Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.

Say not, ‚I have found the truth,‘ but rather, ‚I have found a truth.‘

You can’t go backward in life.

I feel like I’m the kind of guy that would have kids before getting married. The first thing would be kids.

Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.

Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity.

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.

The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.

Life is about conduct and how we conduct ourselves. But two wrongs never make a right.

To hold a man down, you have to stay down with him.

I’ve done a lot of things I’m not proud of, such as getting my girlfriend pregnant when I was 23 and the way I handled that.

We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.

The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.

In my entire life, any time I’ve ever lost something, I’ve gotten something even better going around the next corner. It’s like one door closes and another door opens. As long as I can walk through the produce section in every grocery store in this country and eat the grapes that they’re going to throw away, I know I can be fine.

The frontier between hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.

The divisions of Perspective are 3, as used in drawing; of these, the first includes the diminution in size of opaque objects; the second treats of the diminution and loss of outline in such opaque objects; the third, of the diminution and loss of colour at long distances.

The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.

Mortality is very different when you’re 20 to when you’re 50.

It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.

A child wants things to be a certain way. When you get to be an adult, you just understand that some people are good, some are not, and you can’t be naive.

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.