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.

Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.

Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.

A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like to him; wherever he goes.

I believe that God put us in this jolly world to be happy and enjoy life.

The land created me. I’m wild and lonesome. Even as I travel the cities, I’m more at home in the vacant lots.

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

I refuse to allow any man-made differences to separate me from any other human beings.

My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.

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

I didn’t go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild child in the woods, with no shoes, and in the fall it was back to the city, shoe shops and school.

Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.

We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep.

He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.

It is easier to feel than to realize, or in any way explain, Yosemite grandeur. The magnitudes of the rocks and trees and streams are so delicately harmonized, they are mostly hidden.

I love hugging people. I still hug everybody in my meet-and-greet lines.

In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.

There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.

The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.

We will stand up for our friends in the world. And one of the most important friends is the State of Israel. My administration will be steadfast in support Israel against terrorism and violence, and in seeking the peace for which all Israelis pray.

Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.

My life has been one great big joke, a dance that’s walked a song that’s spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.

Everybody’s youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.

What an encouraging thought that Jesus – our beloved Husband – can find comfort in our lowly feeble gifts! Can this be, for it seems far too good to be true? May we then be willing to endure trials or even death itself if through these hardships we are assisted in bringing gladness to Immanuel’s heart.

If you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won’t see why we go.

No one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

It is odd that we have so little relationship with nature, with the insects and the leaping frog and the owl that hoots among the hills calling for its mate. We never seem to have a feeling for all living things on the earth.

When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent? Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence.

If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.

We are one, after all, you and I, together we suffer, together exist and forever will recreate each other.

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.

When people are connected, we can just do some great things. They have the opportunity to get access to jobs, education, health, communications. We have the opportunity to bring the people we care about closer to us. It really makes a big difference.

Let man live at a distance from God, and the universe remains neutral or hostile to him. But let man believe in God, and immediately all around him the elements, even the irksome, of the inevitable organize themselves into a friendly whole, ordered to the ultimate success of life.

Country radio is much more like a family than any other group of people that I’ve met.

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their ending!

The American dream belongs to all of us.

Life would pall if it were all sugar; salt is bitter if taken by itself; but when tasted as part of the dish, it savours the meat. Difficulties are the salt of life.

One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves.

Life is like a wheel. Sooner or later, it always come around to where you started again.

In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.

I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.

It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.

Death means change our clothes. Clothes become old, then time to come change. So this body become old, and then time come, take young body.

O wise man! Give your wealth only to the worthy and never to others. The water of the sea received by the clouds is always sweet.

The bluebird carries the sky on his back.

I think ‚The Color Purple‘ is so bursting with love, the need for connection, the showing of the need for connection around the globe.

Every loss of life is terrible.

Accept the terrible responsibility of life with eyes wide open.

While I understand the passions and the anger that arise over the death of Michael Brown, giving into that anger by looting or carrying guns, and even attacking the police, only serves to raise tensions and stir chaos.

The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

I feel like the reason people feel like they know me is because I’m giving you myself in the music. There’s where the connection comes from; you can’t Twitter that.

I’m half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times. It’s best not to ask questions and just enjoy.