If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different.

In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they’re still beautiful.

Measure your wealth by what you’d have left if you lost all your money.

Sin is geographical.

I don’t think that the total creation took place in six days as we now measure time. If we can confirm, say, the Big Bang theory, that doesn’t at all cause me to question my faith that God created the Big Bang.

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.

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: ‚I’m with you kid. Let’s go.‘

I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me ‚understand‘ something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.

I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.

To God everything is beautiful, good, and just; humans, however, think some things are unjust and others just.

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.

All variety of created objects which represent order and life in the universe could happen only by the willful reasoning of its original Creator, whom I call the ‚Lord God.‘

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

Many people are alive but don’t touch the miracle of being alive.

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.

Let us all remember this: one cannot proclaim the Gospel of Jesus without the tangible witness of one’s life.

I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.

Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.

Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.

A stair not worn hollow by footsteps is, regarded from its own point of view, only a boring something made of wood.

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.

If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying.

It’s not that I’m afraid to die. I just don’t want to be there when it happens.

I don’t want to get into it, but if you know someone, it doesn’t mean you agree with everything they say or they do.

Any experience that touches you, in any particular way, is good. It can be a horrible experience.

I’ve been fortunate to have had the life I had prior to Hollywood. I wasn’t starving; I was going to eat the next day.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour.

It’s so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.

When we talk about mortality, we are talking about our children.

How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.

The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.

The truth of it is that every singer out there with songs on the radio is raising the next generation, so make your words count.

To love someone means to see him as God intended him.

Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Here comes 40. I’m feeling my age and I’ve ordered the Ferrari. I’m going to get the whole mid-life crisis package.

When you are an actor, you have to stay inside this world, but when you are with the crew, on the outside, you are in the dirt, working through all the issues. It’s just a different way of working, and I think I preferred it.

But I think there are a set of experiences that turn a potential writer into a working writer, and then there are places in your life were you start to recognize what you want to do.

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.

Life well spent is long.

It is normal to give away a little of one’s life in order not to lose it all.

There may not be one Truth – there may be several truths – but saying that is not to say that reality doesn’t exist.

For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

The philosophical question before us is, when we make an observation of our track in the past, does the result of our observation become real in the same sense that the final state would be defined if an outside observer were to make the observation?

Is the babe young? When I behold it, it seems more venerable than the oldest man.

You have to see and smell and feel the circumstances of people to really understand them.

Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.

Fame will go by and, so long, I’ve had you, fame. If it goes by, I’ve always known it was fickle. So at least it’s something I experience, but that’s not where I live.

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

Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.

We see the world not as it is, but as we are.

Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.

I have wondered about time all my life.

It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.

I was born on January 8, 1942, exactly three hundred years after the death of Galileo. I estimate, however, that about two hundred thousand other babies were also born that day. I don’t know whether any of them was later interested in astronomy.

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

The loss of life will be irreplaceable.

You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

I love life because what more is there?

An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.