Have you ever thought how humiliating and distressing it was to be placed upon a sphere? For friendship it is a boon never to be able to be further apart than the antipodes. But suppose that you are leaving together to go on and on; it is impossible. To go beyond a certain point is to return to where you began.

Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.

It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.

Most of our lives aren’t that exciting, but the drama is still going on in the small details.

Keep in mind that no matter how perfectly you get your life in order, you will never be rid of all your problems. Problems are a way of life, always have been, always will be. But how you elect to view those problems is all up to you.

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

It’s presumptuous to say you know how somebody feels.

What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism.

To insult someone we call him ‚bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, ‚human‘ might be the greater insult.

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.

A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.

I love making new friends and I respect people for a lot of different reasons.

We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.

Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.

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

It’s a question of whether we’re going to go forward into the future, or past to the back.

The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.

I made my fair share of mistakes.

I actually feel like women in my position, when we have all at our disposal to help us, shouldn’t complain when we consider all of the people who are really struggling and don’t have the means or support. Many people are single, raising children. That’s hard.

People have been fed this diet of pabulum, rights, and impulsive freedom. There’s just an absolute starvation for the other side of the story.

Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.

Well, Art is Art, isn’t it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know.

Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.

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.

I’ve watched a lot of people who became famous who completely change and I think it’s because they tend to believe all the hype that’s out there. I don’t think there’s that much hype about me.

Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly.

Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities.

Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind!

The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him.

Character is destiny.

All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.

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.

All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.

There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed.

Change alone is unchanging.

I was always very curious as a young man about why older writers who I met seemed so indifferent to what was going on, whereas I, in my 20s, was reading everything. Everything seemed important. But they were only interested in the writers they admired when they were young, and I didn’t understand it then, but now, now I understand it.

Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.

Friendship… is not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.

The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don’t like their rules, whose would you use?

All things in the world come from being. And being comes from non-being.

There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

Do you know the only value life has is what life puts on itself?

Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence.

There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.

Sometimes the majority just means all the fools are on the same side.

Will and intellect are one and the same thing.

The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.

Don’t ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

Whenever you put a man on the Supreme Court he ceases to be your friend.

For me, there are two types of people: the young and the experienced.

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.

Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.

From my perspective, I absolutely believe in a greater spiritual power, far greater than I am, from which I have derived strength in moments of sadness or fear. That’s what I believe, and it was very, very strong in the forest.