‚I wish life was not so short,‘ he thought. ‚Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.‘

Collecting facts is important. Knowledge is important. But if you don’t have an imagination to use the knowledge, civilization is nowhere.

I very rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may try to express it in words afterwards.

The more you know the less you need to say.

The loss of life will be irreplaceable.

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

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.

An unused life is an early death.

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

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

Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.

Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.

I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.

When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds.

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.

For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants.

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

Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark on the face, especially the eyes.

Folks don’t like to have somebody around knowing more than they do.

No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

No one even knows one percent of the fabulous history of Man; but thanks to history, we know about occurrences that go beyond the limits of the imaginable.

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.

Death is just life’s next big adventure.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now.

I have always reckoned the dignity of the republic of first importance and preferable to life.

Real life? Well, I just hope mine isn’t investigated. They might find that I don’t really exist – that I’m just a hologram.

We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

If you have the opportunity to play this game of life you need to appreciate every moment. A lot of people don’t appreciate the moment until it’s passed.

May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.

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.

Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.

What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning.

Without discipline, there’s no life at all.

To not follow your passion in life is a recipe for failure and unhappiness.

Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.

I don’t know how much longer I’ll be around. I’ll probably be writing when the Lord says, ‚Maya, Maya Angelou, it’s time.‘

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

And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?

Either he’s dead or my watch has stopped.

I sometimes wish I were suffering in a good cause, or risking my life for the good of others, instead of just being a gravely endangered patient.

If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.

When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.

One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.

It put our energies to sleep and made visionaries of us – dreamers and indolent… It is good to begin life poor; it is good to begin life rich – these are wholesome; but to begin it prospectively rich! The man who has not experienced it cannot imagine the curse of it.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong.

We conceal it from ourselves in vain – we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.

Which death is preferably to every other? ‚The unexpected‘.

Man’s real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.

My dear brothers and sisters, the joy we feel has little to do with the circumstances of our lives and everything to do with the focus of our lives.

I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.

Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.

Mars is the only place in the solar system where it’s possible for life to become multi-planetarian.