I have lived long enough to satisfy both nature and glory.

Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.

Life’s short. Anything could happen, and it usually does, so there is no point in sitting around thinking about all the ifs, ands and buts.

To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!

The superior man does not, even for the space of a single meal, act contrary to virtue. In moments of haste, he cleaves to it. In seasons of danger, he cleaves to it.

Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one’s aim.

I was never ignorant, as far as being experienced in classrooms and learning about different subjects and actually soaking it up, so I checked into college for a little bit. I took classes at a community college in West L.A. I took psychology, English, and philosophy.

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.

Why are our days numbered and not, say, lettered?

He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.

The internal machinery of life, the chemistry of the parts, is something beautiful. And it turns out that all life is interconnected with all other life.

Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him, are we idly occupied?

I believe Karl Marx could have subscribed to the Sermon on the Mount.

The Congo was the most difficult shoot of my life but was also maybe the greatest adventure of my life.

All nature is but art unknown to thee.

When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live.

My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair.

Basically, when you get to my age, you’ll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you.

Those who have been writing literature have not been writing life.

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.

In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods.

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

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

It was morning; through the high window I saw the pure, bright blue of the sky as it hovered cheerfully over the long roofs of the neighboring houses. It too seemed full of joy, as if it had special plans, and had put on its finest clothes for the occasion.

Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking.

Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in helping souls into paradise.

Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head.

Behold the child, by Nature’s kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

If some years were added to my life, I would give fifty to the study of the Yi, and then I might come to be without great faults.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.

The history of science shows that theories are perishable. With every new truth that is revealed we get a better understanding of Nature and our conceptions and views are modified.

It all went wrong with football, the thing I loved most of all, and from there, my life slowly fell apart.

Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man.

One can find so many pains when the rain is falling.

The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an impoverished present.

Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.

At the heart of the Irish economy has always been the philosophy of tax competitiveness. On the cranky left, that is very annoying; I can see that.

Nature is the incarnation of thought. The world is the mind precipitated.

Always have something beautiful in sight, even if it’s just a daisy in a jelly glass.

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.

Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.

I no longer feel attracted to the well-made novel. I want to write the story that will zero in and give you intense, but not connected, moments of experience. I guess that’s the way I see life. People remake themselves bit by bit and do things they don’t understand.

Law is mind without reason.

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

What if nothing exists and we’re all in somebody’s dream?

Use, do not abuse… neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.

I always believed that when you follow your heart or your gut, when you really follow the things that feel great to you, you can never lose, because settling is the worst feeling in the world.

There is always a present and extant life, be it better or worse, which all combine to uphold.

If you like it you should enjoy it! Moderation in everything. If there’s things you really love, you should enjoy. You get one life, so you should enjoy it.

Our life is made by the death of others.

In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.