After your death you will be what you were before your birth.

Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.

Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.

Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.

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.

As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And what do I do with the time I’ve got left?

One of the most basic factors in sports is that winning becomes a habit, and losing is the same way. When failure starts to feel normal in your life or your work or even your darkest vices, you won’t have to go looking for trouble, because trouble will find you. Count on it.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

If he have faith, the believer cannot be restrained. He betrays himself. He breaks out. He confesses and teaches this gospel to the people at the risk of life itself.

Isn’t it funny how babies laugh a lot? I read a toddler, a young child laughs 300 times a day. The average adult laughs, like, four times a day. God put it in them. He put the laugh in us, but I think sometimes we let life get us down, you know, have bad breaks, and we lose our breaks.

Sometimes I think we’re alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we’re not. In either case the idea is quite staggering.

Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from others. Their fear is only their inability to face what is real, and I can’t vent any anger against them; I only feel this appalling sadness. Somewhere in their upbringing, they were shielded against the total facts of our existence.

Silence is golden when you can’t think of a good answer.

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

Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.

Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.

Their mothers had finally caught up to them and been proven right. There were consequences after all but they were the consequences to things you didn’t even know you’d done.

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

You cannot step into the same river twice.

The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours.

History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.

All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is.

At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.

History will point out some of the things I did wrong and some of the things I did right.

The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him.

The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

I am a part of everything that I have read.

He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.

Knowledge is true opinion.

What I can say is that all my characters are searching for their souls, because they are my mirrors. I’m someone who is constantly trying to understand my place in the world, and literature is the best way that I found in order to see myself.

The best and safest method of philosophizing seems to be first to inquire diligently into the properties of things, and establishing those properties by experiments, and then to proceed more slowly to hypotheses for the explanation of them.

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.

Falsehood is a perennial spring.

Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.

The proper study of Mankind is Man.

In that film, the man and the part met. As far as I’m concerned, that part is Greg’s for life. I’ve had many, many offers to turn it into musicals, into TV or stage plays, but I’ve always refused.

Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

The career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honored by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or else he disappears into the silent forest.

While there’s life, there’s hope.

I am getting to the point where the only love worth being in is the love worth singing about.

Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.

We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our justice before divine justice.

You may say, ‚Well, dragons don’t exist.‘ It’s, like, yes they do – the category ‚predator‘ and the category ‚dragon‘ are the same category. It absolutely exists. It’s a superordinate category. It exists absolutely more than anything else. In fact, it really exists.

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Who would set a limit to the mind of man? Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?

Those who have been writing literature have not been writing life.

I think there is a sense of being forced at this time to look at America’s really large shadow and that’s not all that bad.

You are a child of the sun, you come from the sun, and that is something true with the Earth also… your relationship with the Earth is so deep, and the Earth is in you and this is something not very difficult, much less difficult then philosophy.

A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.

There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

We think that life develops spontaneously on Earth, so it must be possible for life to develop on suitable planets elsewhere in the universe. But we don’t know the probability that a planet develops life.

Man’s unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.