Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear?

When we talk about mortality, we are talking about our children.

If I think too hard about a relationship, I’ll talk myself out of it.

How happy is the blameless vestal’s lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

Life is a series of commas, not periods.

Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.

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.

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.

Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.

Upon the creatures we have made, we are, ourselves, at last, dependent.

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.

One of the most basic factors in sports is that winning becomes a habit, and losing is the same way. When failure starts to feel normal in your life or your work or even your darkest vices, you won’t have to go looking for trouble, because trouble will find you. Count on it.

Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.

In such a porcelain life, one likes to be sure that all is well lest one stumble upon one’s hopes in a pile of broken crockery.

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.

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.

I am trying to find myself. Sometimes that’s not easy.

No, it’s not a very good story – its author was too busy listening to other voices to listen as closely as he should have to the one coming from inside.

Over the years I’ve seen people lose a spouse and then withdraw and lose interest in life, and I believe we need to resist that.

It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.

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

Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.

The internal machinery of life, the chemistry of the parts, is something beautiful. And it turns out that all life is interconnected with all other life.

Man never legislates, but destinies and accidents, happening in all sorts of ways, legislate in all sorts of ways.

I’m constantly thinking.

First and foremost comes my family and my life with Brad. We have so much joy in raising our children and teaching them about the world that nothing really compares to that.

I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

My whole life is a theater piece.

I often wake up in the night, and I like to have something to think about.

The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation.

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.

The mind of the painter must resemble a mirror, which always takes the colour of the object it reflects and is completely occupied by the images of as many objects as are in front of it.

That it will never come again is what makes life sweet.

The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.

To be awake is to be alive.

Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven.

To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.

The true history of my administration will be written 50 years from now, and you and I will not be around to see it.

You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.

Let man live at a distance from God, and the universe remains neutral or hostile to him. But let man believe in God, and immediately all around him the elements, even the irksome, of the inevitable organize themselves into a friendly whole, ordered to the ultimate success of life.

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.

Control your own destiny! Control your own destiny!

We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows.

Had I pursued my education long enough to learn all the conventional dos and don’ts of starting a business, I often wonder how different my life and career might have been.

All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full.

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be.

The life of an uneducated man is as useless as the tail of a dog which neither covers its rear end, nor protects it from the bites of insects.

When I was a kid, I had a tendency to criticize. But when I did, my mum would whisk me off to the bathroom to stand in front of a mirror. Ten minutes, never less. To think about how criticism is a poor reflection on the one who criticizes.

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

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

The way to know life is to love many things.

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

In a way, the whole tangible universe itself is a vast residue, a skeleton of countless lives that have germinated in it and have left it, leaving behind them only a trifling, infinitesimal part of their riches.

I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true.

For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

Philosophy is common sense with big words.

Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.