Ask an older person you respect to tell you his or her greatest regret.

When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

Courage is knowing what not to fear.

I think that there is never an indispensable leader, you know? I think that there is a time with dignity that one needs to leave.

Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.

Before a man speaks it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks, it is seldom necessary to assume it.

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

The last suit that you wear, you don’t need any pockets.

Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God’s side, for God is always right.

At fifty everyone has the face he deserves.

An egg today is better than a hen to-morrow.

When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.

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

It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.

You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

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

It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.

Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has.

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

We should take care not to make the intellect our goal; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.

Man is the most intelligent of the animals – and the most silly.

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.

When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.

This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.

Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on.

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.

Study the past, if you would divine the future.

Nothing is further than earth from heaven, and nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.

I don’t have people following me around, like bodyguards. I don’t know how people live like that. Maybe the young movie stars have to live like that, I don’t know. But it seems a little crazy to me. I don’t think you need all that stuff.

Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.

If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

The person who doesn’t scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs.

But men must know, that in this theatre of man’s life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.

When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man.

The end is the beginning of all things, Suppressed and hidden, Awaiting to be released through the rhythm Of pain and pleasure.

On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.

All the learnin‘ my father paid for was a bit o‘ birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.

I think, in politics, half the people are gonna like you, and half the people are not gonna like you, no matter what you do or what you say… It’s like there are no right answers. If there were, everyone would choose the right answers. They’re all opinions.

Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought.

Every once in a while, you let a word or phrase out and you want to catch it and bring it back. You can’t do that. It’s gone, gone forever.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Peace if possible, truth at all costs.

Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don’t have brains enough to be honest.

I’m never a reliable narrator, unbiased or objective.

Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.

He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

I wouldn’t say that anyone in fashion is on my side. I don’t think there’s anyone on my side.

Our experience of any painting is always the latest line in a long conversation we’ve been having with painting. There’s no way of looking at art as though you hadn’t seen art before.

Go up in an airplane. Go high enough, and it’s like we don’t even exist.

It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.

What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.