If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.

Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.

There is no such thing as a lovers‘ oath.

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.

The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.

We do not know what love is. We know the symptoms of it, the pleasure, the pain, the fear, the anxiety and so on. We try to solve the symptoms, which becomes a wandering in darkness. We spend our days and nights in this, and it is soon over in death.

To me, constructive criticism is when people take ownership of their ideas. That’s why I don’t listen to anything that’s anonymous. But it’s hard; when there’s something hurtful out there, I still want to read it over and over and memorize it and explain my point of view to the person.

I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.

We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

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.

Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt.

I pass my life in preventing the storm from blowing down the tent, and I drive in the pegs as fast as they are pulled up.

As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.

For me to talk with Obama and the conversation I had with him, I was letting him know that me and my fans have a special connection, and it’s love, and I believe that love is the answer.

‚Tis love that makes the world go round, my baby.

Art’s everything we hope life would be, a lot of times.

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost.

There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

My favorite thing in life is writing about life, specifically the parts of life concerning love. Because, as far as I’m concerned, love is absolutely everything.

What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt?

If you were the President of the United States or the Queen of England – you couldn’t have a person who would be more protective than my mother was for me. Which meant really that I could dare to do all sorts of things.

Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.

What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it’s curved like a road through mountains.

Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being.

How do you know what it’s like to be stupid if you’ve never been smart?

There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.

Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.

People react to fear, not love; they don’t teach that in Sunday School, but it’s true.

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

All truth is simple… is that not doubly a lie?

Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

No, we don’t own our children. Our parental privilege is to love them, to lead them, and to let them go.

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.

I’m seeing the world partially through the eyes of a kid. Not all the time. There’s no black and white to it. But sometimes I’m seeing it like I’m 4.

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.

Nothing cannot exist forever.

Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.

Physical comforts cannot subdue mental suffering, and if we look closely, we can see that those who have many possessions are not necessarily happy. In fact, being wealthy often brings even more anxiety.

There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now – always.

If we do discover a complete theory, it should be in time understandable in broad principle by everyone. Then we shall all, philosophers, scientists, and just ordinary people be able to take part in the discussion of why we and the universe exist.

Whether you like it or not, you’re forced to come to the realisation that death is out there. But I don’t fear death, I’m a fatalist. I believe when it’s your time, that’s it. It’s the hand you’re dealt.

I don’t know where I’m going from here, but I promise it won’t be boring.

I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine.

My life as a child did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.

You might not have the things you want, but if you check carefully, you got all you need.

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.

Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.

Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.

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.

You’re going to die. You’re going to be dead. It could be 20 years, it could be tomorrow, anytime. So am I. I mean, we’re just going to be gone. The world’s going to go on without us. All right now. You do your job in the face of that, and how seriously you take yourself you decide for yourself.

So let’s be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious, and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we are doing every day, only in a different way.

He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.

The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife.

Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?

Forever is composed of nows.

We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.