As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

I love my job, but it’s more than that: I need it.

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.

God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. Yet his shadow still looms. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives; who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves?

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Real living is living for others.

Life isn’t fair, but God is.

All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.

I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.

Life is warfare.

It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.

The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.

The more I see the less I know for sure.

Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.

Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.

Experience is one thing you can’t get for nothing.

Religions get lost as people do.

Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.

Build a man a fire, and he’ll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he’ll be warm for the rest of his life.

There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.

There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.

We all want to win more, but it’s all about being blessed and embracing your blessings. We have life.

I was so rude when I was a little girl.

My mother fought cancer for almost a decade and died at 56. She held out long enough to meet the first of her grandchildren and to hold them in her arms. But my other children will never have the chance to know her and experience how loving and gracious she was.

The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.

Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.

I think I’ve got wiser.

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

I think 9/11 affected everybody in one way or another.

Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.

Experience teaches only the teachable.

Temptation is just the feeling that you’re the most independent person on planet Earth. That you know everything. That’s something that we all go through as a kid. Now, this lifestyle that I’m in, the same thing exists! But it’s 10 times worse, because everything is at my disposal. When you’re in the limelight, you can get anything you want.

I seated ugliness on my knee, and almost immediately grew tired of it.

Spending time with God through prayer and His Word is a prerequisite for having a great life and fulfilling your purpose.

Cunning… is but the low mimic of wisdom.

I always believed that when you follow your heart or your gut, when you really follow the things that feel great to you, you can never lose, because settling is the worst feeling in the world.

Searching is half the fun: life is much more manageable when thought of as a scavenger hunt as opposed to a surprise party.

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.

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there’s no risk of accident for someone who’s dead.

Wanting to feel good is synonymous with wanting to feel God.

A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.

Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.

Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

Our lifelong certainties about the world can be demolished in a single second.

Heroism is accessible. Happiness is more difficult.

There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.

Man is not born to atheism. He is born to believe.

There is nothing permanent except change.

What’s the use of happiness? It can’t buy you money.

The joy and love that I get from playing football are unbelievable. It is such a feeling that I want to give everything that I have got. I just enjoy it, I am living a life that I never even dreamt of.

I am not promising that God will give you everything you want. There are times when we want things that God knows would not be good for us.

Somehow, we have come to the erroneous belief that we are all but flesh, blood, and bones, and that’s all. So we direct our values to material things.

The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.

I am just happy to be part of the Nike family.

I have an existential map. It has ‚You are here‘ written all over it.

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain – and most fools do.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed.