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.‘

It seems the older you get, the more life comes into focus.

I make preparations both to live and to die every day, but with the emphasis on not dying, and on acting as if I was going to carry on living.

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

Dying is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down.

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

We conceal it from ourselves in vain – we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?

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.

Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.

Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.

The fact that our task is exactly commensurate with our life gives it the appearance of being infinite.

Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.

Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he.

There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.

Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

I believe in God – not in a Catholic God; there is no Catholic God. There is God, and I believe in Jesus Christ, his incarnation. Jesus is my teacher and my pastor, but God, the Father, Abba, is the light and the Creator. This is my Being.

One might be led to suspect that there were all sorts of things going on in the universe which he or she did not thoroughly understand.

Some people focus more on sonics. Some people focus more on story. I focus on both sonics and story, but music sometimes, just music itself, can turn into more of a maths problem. I guess everything in life is a math problem, but it can be more about an empirical route to getting the symmetry that you want, and this vibe, sonically.

My favorite things in life don’t cost any money. It’s really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.

I think it quite likely that we are the only civilization within several hundred light years; otherwise we would have heard radio waves.

Getting money is not all a man’s business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

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

I give the name of cosmic sense to the more or less confused affinity that binds us psychologically to the All which envelops us. The existence of this feeling is indubitable, and apparently as old as the beginning of thought… The cosmic sense must have been born as soon as man found himself facing the forest, the sea and the stars.

Life is just one damned thing after another.

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

I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally; I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it.

I don’t believe we are supposed to go through life defeated and not having enough money to pay our bills or send our kids to college.

Our life is what our thoughts make it.

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 must be lived as play.

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

Actor’s life is very long.

Reality has a way of intruding. Reality eventually intrudes on everything.

It’s possible – you can never know – that the universe exists only for me. If so, it’s sure going well for me, I must admit.

There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.

The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao; the name that can be named is not the eternal name. The Nameless is the origin of Heaven and Earth; the Named is the mother of all things.

I’m in awe of the universe, but I don’t necessarily believe there’s an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals, though, even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance. The incense is powerful and provocative, whether Buddhist or Catholic.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

One cannot really argue with a mathematical theorem.

Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars – mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

Historically, the stuff of the universe goes on becoming concentrated into ever more organized forms of matter.

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.

I believe the universe is governed by the laws of science. The laws may have been decreed by God, but God does not intervene to break the laws.

If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life.

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

Neil Young is my hero, and such a great example. You know what that guy has been doing for the past 40 years? Making music. That’s what that guy does. Sometimes you pay attention, sometimes you don’t. Sometimes he hands it to you, sometimes he keeps it to himself. He’s a good man with a beautiful family and wonderful life.

We forge the chains we wear in life.

The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can’t have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I’d rather not be in a cage. I’d rather be dead. And it’s real simple. And I think it’s not that uncommon.

And die of nothing but a rage to live.

I came to China to follow my star and to steep myself in the raw regions of the universe.

We have lost contact with reality, the simplicity of life.

For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.

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.