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

We spend our lives, all of us, waiting for the great day, the great battle, or the deed of power. But that external consummation is not given to many: nor is it necessary. So long as our being is tensed, directed with passion, towards that which is the spirit of all things, then that spirit will emerge from our own hidden, nameless effort.

Not only do I not know what’s going on, I wouldn’t know what to do about it if I did.

I have such incredible experiences in my life.

My life is the road, man. I need to keep moving.

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

This is the first age that’s ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one.

Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Europe has what we do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a word, of tragedy. And we have what they sorely need: a sense of life’s possibilities.

If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans.

If we don’t know life, how can we know death?

The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one’s own character to himself.

And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

It is not living that matters, but living rightly.

Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.

From the time I was a kid, I always knew something was going to happen to me. Didn’t know exactly what.

Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

To not follow your passion in life is a recipe for failure and unhappiness.

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

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

Do not keep saying to yourself, if you can possibly avoid it, ‚But how can it be like that?‘ because you will get ‚down the drain,‘ into a blind alley from which nobody has yet escaped. Nobody knows how it can be like that.

Life is abundant, and life is beautiful. And it’s a good place that we’re all in, you know, on this earth, if we take care of it.

I love life because what more is there?

The man who has no problems is out of the game.

Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.

This isn’t life in the fast lane, it’s life in the oncoming traffic.

Except for the young or very happy, I can’t say I am sorry for anyone who dies.

It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

There is nothing permanent except change.

I joyfully hasten to meet death. If it come before I have had opportunity to develop all my artistic faculties, it will come, my hard fate notwithstanding, too soon, and I should probably wish it later – yet even then I shall be happy, for will it not deliver me from a state of endless suffering?

Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.

One can never know for sure what a deserted area looks like.

You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.

I believe that God has put gifts and talents and ability on the inside of every one of us. When you develop that and you believe in yourself and you believe that you’re a person of influence and a person of purpose, I believe you can rise up out of any situation.

My life is mine to remember.

I think that when we know that we actually do live in uncertainty, then we ought to admit it; it is of great value to realize that we do not know the answers to different questions. This attitude of mind – this attitude of uncertainty – is vital to the scientist, and it is this attitude of mind which the student must first acquire.

I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate.

Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.

There is no love of life without despair of life.

Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.

Acting is just a way of making a living, the family is life.

Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.

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

Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him.

I’m half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times.

Life is very difficult. One of the most ancient of religious ideas that emerges everywhere, I would say, is that life is essentially suffering.

I always knew who I was, and I always ran from my true purpose… I know what my job is. And I always ran from it.

It is only a man’s own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else’s meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.

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.

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.

My friends ask me if I want more kids, and I always say yes, I want more; it’s the best thing you can have in your life.

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.

The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation from their purposes.

I’ve been afraid of people playing their life away with too many toys.

Death is not the worst that can happen to men.

For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.

Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.

Death to me means nothing as long as I can die fast.