Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.

To me, comedy is just twisting reality. It’s commenting or observing or twisting life.

The inquiry constantly is what will please, not what will benefit the people. In such a government there can be nothing but temporary expedient, fickleness, and folly.

Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.

The only thing I can say is that I like people; I like human beings with their faults and with their strengths.

The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.

Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.

Government’s first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.

The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.

God created man, but I could do better.

I think, often, people who run away are people who got into things most enthusiastically, and then they want more. They just demand more of life than what is happening in the moment. Sometimes this is a great mistake, as it’s always a good deal different than you expect it.

History will point out some of the things I did wrong and some of the things I did right.

Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter’s honor.

I always kind of see how I want things to be better, and I’m generally not happy with how things are or the level of service that we’re providing for people or the quality of the teams that we built. But if you look at this objectively, we’re doing so well on so many of these things. I think it’s important to have gratitude for that.

It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

Waste brings woe, and sorrow hates despair.

We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.

One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.

In small towns people scent the wind with noses of uncommon keenness.

When I look back on what I did for the Left, I’m in a small way quite proud of some of it – I only wish I’d done more.

I don’t pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.

Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

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

One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one’s death, one dies one’s life.

There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths.

Nothing on this earth is standing still. It’s either growing or it’s dying. No matter if it’s a tree or a human being.

Act well your part, there all the honour lies.

We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America.

You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.

The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name.

A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.

For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can’t be wrong whose life is in the right.

No matter how prepared you think you are for the death of a loved one, it still comes as a shock, and it still hurts very deeply.

What’s done can’t be undone.

Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death.

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.

I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.

It is impossible to experience one’s death objectively and still carry a tune.

Our life is made by the death of others.

I am deeply grateful to the citizens of Sarajevo and the Sarajevo Canton assembly for bestowing upon me this incredible honor of citizenship. I am so proud to now be a part of such an extraordinary part of the world and fellow citizen to the people I deeply love and admire.

A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short.

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

Life’s a bit like mountaineering – never look down.

I’m not the same man I used to be, I’m not out hell-raising, stuff like that. I am a changed man.

Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

To the dumb question, ‚Why me?‘ the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply, ‚Why not?‘

There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.

Death will be a great relief. No more interviews.

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

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

My philosophy in life is, Decide what you want to do. You have to have something to hope for.

Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace.

It is natural to die as to be born.

God made and governs the world invisibly, and has commanded us to love and worship him and no other God; to honor our parents and masters, and love our neighbours as ourselves; and to be temperate, just, and peaceable, and to be merciful even to brute beasts.

It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.

The safety of the people shall be the highest law.