Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.

No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?

Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head.

All the songs I write are about human dynamics, whether it’s with girlfriends, boyfriends, or family.

Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe.

Life is hard. After all, it kills you.

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

Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.

Love is only one of many passions.

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don’t play together, the club won’t be worth a dime.

It used to be the case, like you’d switch jobs, and then maybe you wouldn’t keep in touch with all the people that you knew from that old job, just because it was too hard. But one of the things that Facebook does is it makes it really easy to just stay in touch with all these people.

I have lived long enough to satisfy both nature and glory.

A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

The people you choose to have around you make all the difference. My family and close friends keep me grounded. You have to have a mind of your own and a strong head on your shoulders. Cricket is the most important thing to me, so the rest of it pales in comparison.

There was one incident at a movie theater where my girl got mad at these guys who were talking behind us. I never looked back there, but she was like, ‚Will you all just shut up!‘ And I just got up and moved three rows in front. She was like, ‚What are you doing?!‘ I was like, ‚You better get up here! I don’t play the fighting games.‘

How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.

O‘ What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!

We are not living in a world where all roads are radii of a circle and where all, if followed long enough, will therefore draw gradually nearer and finally meet at the centre: rather in a world where every road, after a few miles, forks into two, and each of those into two again, and at each fork, you must make a decision.

Our constitution is a ray of hope: H for harmony, O for Opportunity, P for people’s participation and E for equality.

Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.

There’s this lingering philosophy that movie stars shouldn’t do TV.

The drama and the trauma of the relationship you have when you’re 16 can mirror the one you have when you’re 26. Life repeats itself.

No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.

One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than your life.

There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.

Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.

It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.

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

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.

I’ll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours.

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.

Eating is so intimate. It’s very sensual. When you invite someone to sit at your table and you want to cook for them, you’re inviting a person into your life.

The frontier between hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.

An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.

I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head. But I cannot conceive man without thought; he would be a stone or a brute.

As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.

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

He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.

Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.

A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.

Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.

My family is very good about visiting me, and other friends as well.

If you’re talking to a man who wouldn’t fight with you under any circumstances whatsoever, then you’re talking to someone for whom you have absolutely no respect.

Know your worth! People always act like they’re doing more for you than you’re doing for them.

Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.

The loss of young first love is so painful that it borders on the ludicrous.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.

Sincere words are not fine; fine words are not sincere.

My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.

I think that all things, in their way, reflect heavenly truth, the imagination not least.

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

Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.

I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartanlike as to put to rout all that was not life.

If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn’t take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.

It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.

Barbecue may not be the road to world peace, but it’s a start.

Marriage has no guarantees. If that’s what you’re looking for, go live with a car battery.

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.