It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It’s called living.

Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts.

Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.

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

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.

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

Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.

The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

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.

Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.

Shall I, that have destroyed my Preservers, return home?

The art of being a slave is to rule one’s master.

The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end.

There’s a deceptive sin that can keep us from walking in love: pride. It’s deceptive because when you have pride, you’re usually too proud to admit it. I know this because I used to have teachings on pride and they didn’t sell well.

I’m half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times.

Man was made at the end of the week’s work, when God was tired.

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

Who, being loved, is poor?

If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?

The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.

Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering – because you can’t take it in all at once.

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.

Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‚What are you doing for others?‘

A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.

Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way.

Life would be tragic if it weren’t funny.

A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe.

I really believe in the philosophy that you create your own universe. I’m just trying to create a good one for myself.

If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.

Death is just life’s next big adventure.

Those who have been writing literature have not been writing life.

In our obscurity – in all this vastness – there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us.

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future.

There is no coming to consciousness without pain.

Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven.

When you smoke the herb, it reveals you to yourself.

I second-guess and overthink and rethink every single thing that I do.

In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely. Golf really is the best microcosm of life – or at least the way life should be.

He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.

Waste brings woe, and sorrow hates despair.

My philosophy is that if I have any money I invest it in new ventures and not have it sitting around.

Existence precedes and rules essence.

Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him, are we idly occupied?

Death is not the worst that can happen to men.

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.

The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.

For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can’t be wrong whose life is in the right.

Every man is his own hell.

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

Keep in mind that no matter how perfectly you get your life in order, you will never be rid of all your problems. Problems are a way of life, always have been, always will be. But how you elect to view those problems is all up to you.

If you do things, whether it’s acting or music or painting, do it without fear – that’s my philosophy. Because nobody can arrest you and put you in jail if you paint badly, so there’s nothing to lose.

Previous generations understood about death, and undoubtedly would have seen a reasonable amount of death. Once you get into the Victorian era, you might well have seen the funerals of many of your siblings before you were very old.

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.