All my life I’ve looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.

And no, we don’t know where it will lead. We just know there’s something much bigger than any of us here.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.

Few people have the imagination for reality.

I do think there must be some kind of interaction between your living life and the life that goes on from here.

Step with care and great tact, and remember that Life’s a Great Balancing Act.

It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.

If a word in the dictionary were misspelled, how would we know?

I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.

I just have an enthusiasm for life.

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

All variety of created objects which represent order and life in the universe could happen only by the willful reasoning of its original Creator, whom I call the ‚Lord God.‘

Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.

Things don’t have to change the world to be important.

There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.

I always kind of see how I want things to be better, and I’m generally not happy with how things are or the level of service that we’re providing for people or the quality of the teams that we built. But if you look at this objectively, we’re doing so well on so many of these things. I think it’s important to have gratitude for that.

What the devil is the point of surviving, going on living, when it’s a drag? But you see, that’s what people do.

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

A squirrel dying in front of your house may be more relevant to your interests right now than people dying in Africa.

Change alone is unchanging.

Life is wasted on the living.

Whether for life or death, do your own work well.

The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.

Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?

No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can’t, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

There really is no difference between the bully and the victim.

A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.

Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.

Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.

There is nothing permanent except change.

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

The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

Life well spent is long.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts – the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.

If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don’t care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.

Talking isn’t doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.

Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.

He who looks the higher is the more highly distinguished, and turning over the great book of nature (which is the proper object of philosophy) is the way to elevate one’s gaze.

It’s not morbid to talk about death. Most people don’t worry about death, they worry about a bad death.

Comedy just pokes at problems, rarely confronts them squarely. Drama is like a plate of meat and potatoes, comedy is rather the dessert, a bit like meringue.

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

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

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man.

The eye sees what it brings the power to see.

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

My life is real.

If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.

I don’t have people following me around, like bodyguards. I don’t know how people live like that. Maybe the young movie stars have to live like that, I don’t know. But it seems a little crazy to me. I don’t think you need all that stuff.

There is no such things as ‚best‘ in the world of individuals.

Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith.

There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor.

To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

In fact men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth – often more so, since a superstition is so intangible you cannot get at it to refute it, but truth is a point of view, and so is changeable.

Movies are fun, but they are no cure for cancer.

I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.