I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one’s own in the midst of abundance.

Water is life, and clean water means health.

To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.

There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.

There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.

The ‚I think‘ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‚I breathe‘ which actually does accompany them.

Premature certainty is the enemy of the truth.

There is nothing so stable as change.

And die of nothing but a rage to live.

Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.

I mean… in life… what relationship is easy?

The world itself is the will to power – and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power – and nothing else!

Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.

He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.

Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.

Every man is his own hell.

I want you to feel happy and enjoy the theatre of my life the way that I do. No matter what happens with my music and wherever I go – that heart of that glamorous girl in New York will never be gone.

From an eternal perspective, the only death that is truly premature is the death of one who is not prepared to meet God.

When you give, it comes back to you.

The Bill of Rights is not an a la carte menu.

All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.

In order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality common to us all. The sea, rains, necessity, desire, the struggle against death… these are things that unite us all.

The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.

Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.

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

Some people focus more on sonics. Some people focus more on story. I focus on both sonics and story, but music sometimes, just music itself, can turn into more of a maths problem. I guess everything in life is a math problem, but it can be more about an empirical route to getting the symmetry that you want, and this vibe, sonically.

Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have.

Life must be lived as play.

My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning.

In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.

The only length of life that seems to satisfy the longings of the human heart is life everlasting.

I can control my destiny, but not my fate. Destiny means there are opportunities to turn right or left, but fate is a one-way street. I believe we all have the choice as to whether we fulfil our destiny, but our fate is sealed.

I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell – you see, I have friends in both places.

Every particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time is related to the whole, and partakes of the perfection of the whole.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?

The spiritual is the parent of the practical.

Comedians are sociologists. We’re pointing out stuff that the general public doesn’t even stop to think about, looking at life in slow-motion and questioning everything we see.

A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty.

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

Existence precedes and rules essence.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it – this is knowledge.

One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

I believe that a government has only one religion – India first. A government has only one holy book – our Constitution. A government has only one kind of devotion – towards nation.

A man’s character is his guardian divinity.

Nature teaches us that tens of billions of light years may have passed, and life in all of its expressions has always been subjected to an incredible combination of matter and radiation.

I’ve got all the money I’ll ever need, if I die by four o’clock.

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

All my life I’ve looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.

I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We’ve created life in our own image.

Are creeds such simple things like the clothes which a man can change at will and put on at will? Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages.