I can be almost terminally grief-stricken because things are so dire, but at the same time, there’s a real lightheartedness about just the recoverability of life, of how things change, how they’re not the same, ever again.

We should not say that one man’s hour is worth another man’s hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time’s carcass.

There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.

I’m always relieved when someone is delivering a eulogy and I realize I’m listening to it.

When the people you love are gone, you’re alone.

Every wall is a door.

Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.

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

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.

The moment you have a child, in an instant your life is not for you, and your life is completely, 100 percent dedicated to another human being, and they will always come first. It changes you forever. It changes your perspective, and it gives you a nice purpose and focus.

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.

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

If you think nobody cares about you, try missing a couple of payments.

We have communion with Christ in His thoughts, views, and purposes; for His thoughts are our thoughts according to our capacity and sanctity. Believers take the same view of matters as Jesus does; that which pleases Him pleases them, and that which grieves His grieves them also.

Over the years I’ve seen people lose a spouse and then withdraw and lose interest in life, and I believe we need to resist that.

He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.

Age doesn’t bother me. So many of my heroes were older guys. It’s the lack of years left that weighs far heavier on me than the age that I am.

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.

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

North Americans don’t understand… that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity.

If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person’s point of view and see things from that person’s angle as well as from your own.

I’m not somebody that thinks about destiny and fate, but I don’t walk away from it when something unfolds.

People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.

I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.

Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.

I don’t have people following me around, like bodyguards. I don’t know how people live like that. Maybe the young movie stars have to live like that, I don’t know. But it seems a little crazy to me. I don’t think you need all that stuff.

The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.

A lot of people have it a lot worse than you do.

The true history of my administration will be written 50 years from now, and you and I will not be around to see it.

He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.

Do not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees are cut down while crooked ones are left standing.

Life is grim, and we don’t have to be grim all the time.

The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.

In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory.

Little things console us because little things afflict us.

I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

A lot of people don’t like the road, but it’s as natural to me as breathing.

Life would be tragic if it weren’t funny.

If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.

I’m more of a realist when it comes to life, and I’d much rather my mother be in a spiritual place in Heaven than in a bed, sick, fighting for her life.

Oh, yes; you Virginians shed barrels of perspiration while standing off at a distance and superintending the work your slaves do for you. It is different with us. Here it is every fellow for himself, or he doesn’t get there.

On a bike, being just slightly above pedestrian and car eye level, one gets a perfect view of the goings-on in one’s own town.

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

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.

Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.

See things from the boy’s point of view.

Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

I don’t look at a man who’s expert in one area as a specialist. I look at him as a rookie in ten other areas.

There are no such things as Flowers there are only gladdened Leaves.

The only certain freedom’s in departure.

All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.

Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, ‚This is a misfortune‘ but ‚To bear this worthily is good fortune.‘

It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow’s viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.

The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.

Human life is far more important than just getting to the top of a mountain.

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.

Like every parent, when you start your family, your life completely changes. And you completely live for someone else. I find that the most extraordinary thing. Your life is handed over to someone else. From that moment on, they come first in every choice you make. It’s the most wonderful thing.

My mum passing away wasn’t funny, but that funeral and what I went through, the things that happened, looking back at it, there were funny moments. You have to be strong enough to look back at it, to sit and assess the situation.