I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.

Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.

Religion is the opium of the masses.

Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe.

The formula ‚Two and two make five‘ is not without its attractions.

By indignities men come to dignities.

Baseball is a universe as large as life itself, and therefore all things in life, whether good or bad, whether tragic or comic, fall within its domain.

We have lost contact with reality, the simplicity of life.

I pledge allegiance to the Christian flag, and to the Savior, for whose Kingdom it stands, one Savior, crucified, risen, and coming again, with life and liberty for all who believe.

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.

I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.

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.

There is nothing besides a spiritual world; what we call the world of the senses is the Evil in the spiritual world, and what we call Evil is only the necessity of a moment in our eternal evolution.

There’s nothing you can know that isn’t known.

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?

It’s possible – you can never know – that the universe exists only for me. If so, it’s sure going well for me, I must admit.

I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

Man’s greatness lies in his power of thought.

All my life I’ve been taught how to die, but no one ever taught me how to grow old.

Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution.

In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.

Maybe I should say that memory interests me a great deal, because I think we all tell stories of our lives to ourselves as well as to other people. Well, women do, anyway. Women do this a lot. And I think when men get older, they do this too, but maybe in slightly different terms.

Life isn’t meant to be easy. It’s hard to take being on the top – or on the bottom. I guess I’m something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things… Life is one crisis after another.

The art of being a slave is to rule one’s master.

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

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

Whether for life or death, do your own work well.

Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.

This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.

The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

States are not moral agents.

Life is an ordeal, albeit an exciting one, but I wouldn’t trade it for the good old days of poverty and obscurity.

Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.

As you get older, you have more responsibilities; you have more commitments, more events, kids, you’re married now. You still have all the things that you’ve had, plus you just keep adding.

I’m a strict, strict agnostic. It’s very different from a casual, ‚I don’t know.‘ It’s that you cannot present as knowledge something that is not knowledge. You can present it as faith, you can present it as belief, but you can’t present it as fact.

Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.

Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.

Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.

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.

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

Little things console us because little things afflict us.

Don’t say I hate institutionalised religion – rather than saying I hate those things, which I do not, what I’m saying is that perhaps there is a way of opening more doors, rather than closing so many.

And yet it moves.

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

Modern science says: ‚The sun is the past, the earth is the present, the moon is the future.‘ From an incandescent mass we have originated, and into a frozen mass we shall turn. Merciless is the law of nature, and rapidly and irresistibly we are drawn to our doom.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.

The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.

He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.

The life so short, the craft so long to learn.