I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there. Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more lives to live and could not spare any more time for that one.

Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.

I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

If I have the chance to say something, I will say it – but that doesn’t obligate me to always say something, or to shed light on every problem, as if I were a lawmaker.

When I get logical, and I don’t trust my instincts – that’s when I get in trouble.

Don’t wait for the last judgment – it takes place every day.

On the court, I want to try and get to the free-throw line a little more. And as a point guard, you can always get better at your decision-making and limiting your mistakes.

It’s easier to aim to please and say what others want to hear than to form an opinion and fight for it, even if it means taking a risk or losing your job.

Apart from life, a strong constitution, and an abiding connection to the Thembu royal house, the only thing my father bestowed upon me at birth was a name, Rolihlahla.

Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us.

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

The best thing is to always keep honest people around, because when you have a bunch of yes men around that know that you’re making a mistake but let you go on with it, that’s when it ruins your mind state as an artist.

I still live, I still think: I still have to live, for I still have to think.

Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.

Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.

Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

My authoritarian and quick manner of making decisions led me to have serious problems and to be accused of being ultraconservative. I have never been a right-winger. It was my authoritarian way of making decisions that created problems.

If an idea isn’t exciting, you shouldn’t do it.

A useless life is an early death.

Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

Having unlimited choices can paralyze you creatively.

Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is.

My favorite things in life don’t cost any money. It’s really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.

There are three constants in life… change, choice and principles.

I don’t care whether you’re driving a hybrid or an SUV. If you’re headed for a cliff, you have to change direction. That’s what the American people called for in November, and that’s what we intend to deliver.

Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.

I understood that with the swipe of my pen as a prosecutor, I would have the decision in my pen to make a decision about someone’s life.

I don’t know what’s better gettin‘ laid or gettin‘ paid.

Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

My mom was on the United Way group that decides how to allocate the money and looks at all the different charities and makes the very hard decisions about where that pool of funds is going to go.

It’s OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket.

On some positions, Cowardice asks the question, ‚Is it safe?‘ Expediency asks the question, ‚Is it politic?‘ And Vanity comes along and asks the question, ‚Is it popular?‘ But Conscience asks the question, ‚Is it right?‘

Our heart glows, and secret unrest gnaws at the root of our being. Dealing with the unconscious has become a question of life for us.

The fact that our task is exactly commensurate with our life gives it the appearance of being infinite.

Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf; is better than a whole loaf.

The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.

One day it will be over, and I don’t care.

If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans.

If life is a checker game, someone else is moving the pieces. It isn’t us. Don’t be surprised by amazing coincidences. There are no accidents. Consider, as I learned to do, the incredible interconnectedness of all of life.

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

A majority is always better than the best repartee.

I have too many clothes, I have too many options.

Well, the future for me is already a thing of the past.

Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.

I live in a crazy time.

Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.

Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.

If my life was a movie, no one would believe it.

A lot of good love can happen in ten years.

I just hate meetings. Though it’s true that once you’ve made a lot of money, people around you might be full of ideas about ways to make lots more money and might be disappointed that you don’t want to seize every opportunity to do so.

Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.

Life’s like a play: it’s not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.

Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.

Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it.

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.

Beautiful sentences pop into my head. Beautiful sentences that aren’t always absolutely accurate. Then, I have to choose between the beautiful sentence and being absolutely accurate. It can be a difficult choice.

To see the right and not to do it is cowardice.

Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we’re atheist. Our existence is beyond our understanding. No one has an answer.