Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.

If you want to gather honey, don’t kick over the beehive.

What the devil is the point of surviving, going on living, when it’s a drag? But you see, that’s what people do.

Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he.

I don’t pretend to understand the Universe – it’s a great deal bigger than I am.

So vast is art, so narrow human wit.

An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.

When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world.

You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.

I have had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn’t it.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.

My life is my message.

Remember you are just an extra in everyone else’s play.

We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven.

My experience is listen, see, feel – and then think about what you change.

Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived.

Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

There have been so many great players that I’ve played with, that I’ve played against over the years.

I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.

To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.

There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.

Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.

When you’re 25 or 30, you know, you can’t wear lime-green eye shadow anymore.

The more you know the less you need to say.

I don’t think I would be interested in the climate at all if I had been like everyone else.

Don’t gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold.

We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.

I wouldn’t say that anyone in fashion is on my side. I don’t think there’s anyone on my side.

In that film, the man and the part met. As far as I’m concerned, that part is Greg’s for life. I’ve had many, many offers to turn it into musicals, into TV or stage plays, but I’ve always refused.

Being young is a great advantage, since we see the world from a new perspective and we are not afraid to make radical changes.

Nobody enjoys the ‚little show about nothing‘ humor more than me, but that is never the way I look at it.

You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.

Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.

To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

What one fool can understand, another can.

Every time I think that I’m getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.

Just as the humble, unassuming, assenting ‚O.K.‘ has deposed the more affirmative ‚Yes,‘ so the little cringe and hesitation and approximation of ‚like‘ are a help to young people who are struggling to negotiate the shoals and rapids of ethnic identity, the street, and general correctness.

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.

Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.

Look not at what is contrary to propriety; listen not to what is contrary to propriety; speak not what is contrary to propriety; make no movement which is contrary to propriety.

Nature teaches us that tens of billions of light years may have passed, and life in all of its expressions has always been subjected to an incredible combination of matter and radiation.

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.

A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.

Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don’t have brains enough to be honest.

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Things ain’t what they used to be and never were.

I’ve been afraid of people playing their life away with too many toys.

Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms – in themselves such judgments are stupidities.

Study the past, if you would divine the future.

I always was a rich person because money’s not related to happiness.

How do you know what it’s like to be stupid if you’ve never been smart?

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

Of life’s two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer’s hand.

One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.

If you wished to be loved, love.