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

The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.

No school of philosophy has ever solved this question of whether being determines consciousness or the other way around. It may be a false antithesis.

Sometimes in the past when I played something might make me lose focus, or I would go home after a game where I thought I could have played better and I would let it hang over my head for a long time when it shouldn’t.

The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in.

Saints can be happy under every circumstance.

By the sole fact of his entering into ‚Thought,‘ man represents something entirely singular and absolutely unique in the field of our experience. On a single planet, there could not be more than one centre of emergence for reflexion.

I was always making my friends laugh, but I never wanted the attention of the whole classroom.

My goal is to make everyone and anyone a Kevin Hart fan.

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.

It is better to live rich than to die rich.

If you were going to shoot a mime, would you use a silencer?

A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone; and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.

My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.

Frankly, I mean, sometimes the interpretations I’ve seen on some of the songs that I’ve written are a lot more interesting than the input that I put in.

One likes people much better when they’re battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

Needing to have things perfect is the surest way to immobilize yourself with frustration.

It put our energies to sleep and made visionaries of us – dreamers and indolent… It is good to begin life poor; it is good to begin life rich – these are wholesome; but to begin it prospectively rich! The man who has not experienced it cannot imagine the curse of it.

It’s a philosophy of life. A practice. If you do this, something will change, what will change is that you will change, your life will change, and if you can change you, you can perhaps change the world.

I was the first woman to burn my bra – it took the fire department four days to put it out.

I believe that God’s dream is that we be successful in our careers, and that we be able to send our kids to college. I don’t mean that everyone is going to be rich, and I preach a lot on blooming where you’re planted. But I don’t have the mindset that money is a bad thing.

Whatever must happen ultimately should happen immediately.

With ideas it is like with dizzy heights you climb: At first they cause you discomfort and you are anxious to get down, distrustful of your own powers; but soon the remoteness of the turmoil of life and the inspiring influence of the altitude calm your blood; your step gets firm and sure and you begin to look – for dizzier heights.

Who, being loved, is poor?

A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.

I could never identify with that word, ‚weak.‘

Quitting doesn’t enter my mind.

Money doesn’t make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million.

When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.

I’m extremely willful to win, and I respond to challenges. Scoring titles and stuff like that… it sounds, well, I don’t care how it sounds – to me, scoring comes easy. It’s not a challenge to me to win the scoring title, because I know I can.

The more cats you have, the longer you live. If you have a hundred cats, you’ll live 10 times longer than if you have 10. Someday this will be discovered, and people will have a thousand cats and live forever. It’s truly ridiculous.

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.

We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.

You’re going to die. You’re going to be dead. It could be 20 years, it could be tomorrow, anytime. So am I. I mean, we’re just going to be gone. The world’s going to go on without us. All right now. You do your job in the face of that, and how seriously you take yourself you decide for yourself.

There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.

Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.

Keep a good attitude and do the right thing even when it’s hard. When you do that you are passing the test. And God promises you your marked moments are on their way.

It’s not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it’s the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.

People are always asking me in interviews, ‚What do you think of foreign affairs?‘ I just say, ‚I’ve had a few.‘

In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.

Life begins on the other side of despair.

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

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

Be a force of love as often as you can and turn away negative thoughts whenever you feel them surface.

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.

Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie… a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.

It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.

My life is my argument.

Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.

We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.

If you saw a heat wave, would you wave back?

To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.

No one will ever win the battle of the sexes; there’s too much fraternizing with the enemy.

It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.

Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.

I won’t do something unless I can get at least two or three good laughs out of it. If I can’t, it’s not gonna make the team.

I love making people laugh. And I love laughing.