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.‘

Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever.

Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.

My life is mine to remember.

We do not know what love is. We know the symptoms of it, the pleasure, the pain, the fear, the anxiety and so on. We try to solve the symptoms, which becomes a wandering in darkness. We spend our days and nights in this, and it is soon over in death.

Space is almost infinite. As a matter of fact, we think it is infinite.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

Good order is the foundation of all things.

My life is my message.

For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven’t committed.

Many people find the universe confusing – it’s not.

The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other.

Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is harmony in the house; when there is harmony in the house, there is order in the nation; when there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.

We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.

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

This industry has been really good to me. It’s been a great life. I’m not through yet. I’m ready when you are, Mr. DeMille.

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.

God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.

They say the universe is expanding. That should help with the traffic.

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

Comedians are sociologists. We’re pointing out stuff that the general public doesn’t even stop to think about, looking at life in slow-motion and questioning everything we see.

It’s just human nature to try and figure things out. So, when we’re in the midst of a situation, we usually try to reason our way through it.

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

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.

Everybody born comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory. We come from the Creator with creativity. I think that each one of us is born with creativity.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.

The drama and the trauma of the relationship you have when you’re 16 can mirror the one you have when you’re 26. Life repeats itself.

One day it will be over, and I don’t care.

Life, if well lived, is long enough.

Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.

Art is the proper task of life.

Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.

It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.

Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death’s the other.

Space is big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the drug store, but that’s just peanuts to space.

Our life is made by the death of others.

The big message of gospel is that you don’t have to keep fighting the universe; you can stop, and the universe is quite good to you. There is a loss of ego.

There is neither spirit nor matter in the world. The stuff of the universe is spirit-matter. No other substance but this could have produced the human molecule.

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

I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there. Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more lives to live and could not spare any more time for that one.

We should all start to live before we get too old.

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it, only in it, only confronting it – aliens.

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

It all went wrong with football, the thing I loved most of all, and from there, my life slowly fell apart.

It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn’t feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.

You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.

As soon as there is life there is danger.

Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.

Most of one’s life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

I don’t know how to have a normal relationship because I try to act normal and love from a normal place and live a normal life, but there is sort of an abnormal magnifying glass, like telescope lens, on everything that happens.

I sometimes wish I were suffering in a good cause, or risking my life for the good of others, instead of just being a gravely endangered patient.

If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn’t brood. I’d type a little faster.

Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.

There is in me an anarchy and frightful disorder. Creating makes me die a thousand deaths, because it means making order, and my entire being rebels against order. But without it I would die, scattered to the winds.

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.