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

Life is abundant, and life is beautiful. And it’s a good place that we’re all in, you know, on this earth, if we take care of it.

Where there is love there is life.

Thank God, I never was cheerful. I come from the happy stock of the Mathers, who, as you remember, passed sweet mornings reflecting on the goodness of God and the damnation of infants.

If I’m the people’s poet, then I ought to be in people’s hands – and, I hope, in their heart.

Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm.

In war, you win or lose, live or die – and the difference is just an eyelash.

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.

It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much.

A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.

Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.

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.

For Africa to me… is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.

Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.

Extremely religious, legalistic people have a criticism or judgment about everyone and everything. They just have a way of bringing people down with what they say.

If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

I wish I had known when I was in the White House what I know now about the Third World.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.

We think that life develops spontaneously on Earth, so it must be possible for life to develop on suitable planets elsewhere in the universe. But we don’t know the probability that a planet develops life.

Death and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop means of concealment and aggression. It is common sense.

Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.

Superstition is the poetry of life.

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

Thirty was so strange for me. I’ve really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.

I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

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

Enlightenment is always there. Small enlightenment will bring great enlightenment. If you breathe in and are aware that you are alive – that you can touch the miracle of being alive – then that is a kind of enlightenment.

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

If you lose a big fight, it will worry you all of your life. It will plague you – until you get your revenge.

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.

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.

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

Few men would dare to read their own autobiography if all their deeds were recorded in it; few can look back upon their entire career without a blush.

What a waste it is to lose one’s mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.

Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.

San Francisco is gone. Nothing remains of it but memories.

It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.

Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.

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

Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternity.

In business or in life, don’t follow the wagon tracks too closely.

When people say, you know, ‚Good teacher,‘ ‚Prophet,‘ ‚Really nice guy’… this is not how Jesus thought of Himself. So you’re left with a challenge in that, which is either Jesus was who he said he was or a complete and utter nut case. You have to make a choice on that.

People who can’t be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.

To not to have entirely wasted one’s life seems to be a worthy accomplishment, if only for myself.

To me, if life boils down to one thing, it’s movement. To live is to keep moving.

The life which men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others?

For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.

Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery’s shadow or reflection: the fact that you don’t merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.

I’m really looking forward to seeing what life brings to me.

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.

Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.

We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success.

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.

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.