As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do?

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

To some extent I liken slavery to death.

Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

I serve God.

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart’s desire. The other is to gain it.

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

If you try and work out at 4:30 in the afternoon, how many people are going to chip away at that time? Your boss, your job, your work, your family, your other obligations that you might have. At 4:30 in the morning, all those people are asleep, so you can do whatever you want.

I have now exactly the same weight I had when I was 18, 20.

I don’t worry about stress. I create it.

It is impossible to reason without arriving at a Supreme Being.

All religions try to benefit people, with the same basic message of the need for love and compassion, for justice and honesty, for contentment.

When I write, I can shake off all my cares.

A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.

Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.

If we had more hell in the pulpit, we would have less hell in the pew.

I’m not afraid to die, I just don’t want to be there when it happens.

I’ve always believed in God. I also think that’s the sort of thing that either comes as part of the equipment, the capacity to believe, or at some point in your life, when you’re in a position where you actually need help from a power greater than yourself, you simply make an agreement.

God has his plans and his reasons. Sometimes we are supposed to go through things so that we learn lessons.

By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself.

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.

Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive.

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.

There’s an ecstatic side to writing. It’s like jazz. It just has a life.

Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.

Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.

It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture.

There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life’s sores the better.

I’ve tried everything. I’ve done therapy, I’ve done colonics. I went to a psychic who had me running around town buying pieces of ribbon to fill the colors in my aura. Did the Prozac thing.

I believe everyone should have a good death. You know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. Because after all, tears are appropriate on a death bed. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop.

All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.

Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.

When you go to an oasis, you go there to supply yourself with the vital things you are missing, things that you need.

It is a common saying, and in everybody’s mouth, that life is but a sojourn.

Life is precious.

I always tell young girls, surround yourself with goodness. I learned early on how to get the haters out of my life.

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.

To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.

To keep the body in good health is a duty… otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.

The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.

In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.

Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature.

Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.

But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is.

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

He is lost who is possessed by carnal desire.

Over the years I’ve learned how to lock myself up in a prison of hope, knowing that God has nothing but His best planned for me. He promised me things concerning my ministry and my life.

There is a lot of pressure put on me, but I don’t put a lot of pressure on myself. I feel if I play my game, it will take care of itself.

Adopt responsibility for your own well-being, try to put your family together, try to serve your community, try to seek for eternal truth… That’s the sort of thing that can ground you in your life, enough so that you can withstand the difficulty of life.

How easy it is to govern when one follows a system of consulting the will of the people and one holds as the only norm all the actions which contribute to the well being of the people.

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.

I read Plato’s ‚Republic.‘ I read it through about five times until I could actually understand it.

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature’s God.