All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.

Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee!

I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don’t let anybody tell you different.

Patience is a virtue, and I’m learning patience. It’s a tough lesson.

Jesus lived a life that was full of joy and contradictions and fights, you know? If they were to paint a picture of Jesus without contradictions, the gospels would be fake, but the contradictions are a sign of authenticity.

Bread without flesh is a good diet, as on many botanical excursions I have proved. Tea also may easily be ignored. Just bread and water and delightful toil is all I need – not unreasonably much, yet one ought to be trained and tempered to enjoy life in these brave wilds in full independence of any particular kind of nourishment.

I’m not trying to follow a set of rules and stuff. I’m just living my life.

A fool is wise in his eyes.

People think, because we’re young, we aren’t complex, but that’s not true. We deal with life and love and broken hearts in the same way a woman a few years older might.

The act of dying is one of the acts of life.

I learn poetry, learn text, and that really keeps you alive.

Time discovers truth.

You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.

Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.

It’s none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.

I never thought, in my lifetime, that you’d be able to watch movies, read books and listen to music from a phone, but I guess the technology of tomorrow is here today.

One who does not know when to die, does not know how to live.

Life can be boring unless you put some effort into it.

Life would pall if it were all sugar; salt is bitter if taken by itself; but when tasted as part of the dish, it savours the meat. Difficulties are the salt of life.

Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.

The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.

There should be a point to movies. Sure, you’re giving people a diversion from the cold world for a bit, but at the same time, you pass on some facts and rules and maybe a little bit of wisdom.

But I think there are a set of experiences that turn a potential writer into a working writer, and then there are places in your life were you start to recognize what you want to do.

In seeking comfort, we generally find a quiet corner in life where there is a minimum of conflict, and then we are afraid to step out of that seclusion.

Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope, and that enables you to laugh at life’s realities.

To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

Personally, I think the best motto for an educational establishment is: ‚Or Would You Rather Be a Mule?‘

The wisest hustler can suddenly fall for the worst tramp and lose all of his money on her. The hustler is aware of his own weaknesses and openings to con. This awareness is his edge.

If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

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

Of life’s two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer’s hand.

A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.

I don’t see the wisdom in modern politicians that I once saw in men like Dean Acheson, David Bruce, or George Marshall. In my day, the northeastern establishment dominated foreign policy formulation, but the composition and distribution of our population is very different today.

There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.

In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

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

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

I don’t know that my schooling was conducive to wild ideas and creativity, but it gave me discipline, drive. They taught me how to think. I really know how to think.

Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor.

Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.

Children make your life important.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

It’s not an experiment if you know it’s going to work.

Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.

I think any life can be interesting, any surroundings can be interesting. I don’t think I could have been so brave if I had been living in a town, competing with people on what can be called a generally higher cultural level.

An ignorant person is one who doesn’t know what you have just found out.

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.

My definition of country music is really pretty simple. It’s when someone sings about their life and what they know, from an authentic place.

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

A home without books is a body without soul.

Water is life, and clean water means health.

No one should be ashamed to admit he is wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

Some people die at 25 and aren’t buried until 75.