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.

In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.

Let us work without theorizing, tis the only way to make life endurable.

I have a feeling that I make a very good friend, and I’m a good mother, and a good sister, and a good citizen. I am involved in life itself – all of it. And I have a lot of energy and a lot of nerve.

I think the brain is essentially a computer and consciousness is like a computer program. It will cease to run when the computer is turned off. Theoretically, it could be re-created on a neural network, but that would be very difficult, as it would require all one’s memories.

Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

If a whole bunch of people want to make your life a living hell, they’re gonna do it.

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.

What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.

He that does good to another does good also to himself.

Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one’s own character to himself.

Truth is what works.

The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.

The superior man does not, even for the space of a single meal, act contrary to virtue. In moments of haste, he cleaves to it. In seasons of danger, he cleaves to it.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Man is unable to see himself entirely unrelated to mankind, neither is he able to see mankind unrelated to life, nor life unrelated to the universe.

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.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.

Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform.

Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.

If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.

There is no birth of consciousness without pain.

It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.

Since God created the world, He also created reality.

You can’t imagine parlor ballads drifting out of high-rise multi-towered buildings. That kind of music existed in a more timeless state of life.

Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man.

Akron, Ohio, is my home. It will always be remembered. Akron, Ohio, is my life.

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

Our life is frittered away by detail… simplify, simplify.

Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.

He who can be, and therefore is, another’s, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature.

The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.

It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short.

Infinites, when considered absolutely without any restriction or limitation, are neither equal nor unequal, nor have any certain proportion one to another, and therefore, the principle that all infinites are equal is a precarious one.

In every parting there is an image of death.

I believe Karl Marx could have subscribed to the Sermon on the Mount.

A useless life is an early death.

Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.

There’s no one thing that is true. They’re all true.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

Wishful thinking is not idealism. It is self-indulgence at best and self-exaltation at worst. In either case, it is usually at the expense of others. In other words, it is the opposite of idealism.

If some years were added to my life, I would give fifty to the study of the Yi, and then I might come to be without great faults.

Life is an ordeal, albeit an exciting one, but I wouldn’t trade it for the good old days of poverty and obscurity.

To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one’s being added to that being.

We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers.

I believe life is an intelligent thing: that things aren’t random.

Life’s short. Anything could happen, and it usually does, so there is no point in sitting around thinking about all the ifs, ands and buts.

The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life… Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality.

My philosophy is simple: It’s a down-home, common, horse-sense approach to things.

And, after all, what is a lie? ‚Tis but the truth in a masquerade.

It’s possible – you can never know – that the universe exists only for me. If so, it’s sure going well for me, I must admit.

Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.

The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks.