It put our energies to sleep and made visionaries of us – dreamers and indolent… It is good to begin life poor; it is good to begin life rich – these are wholesome; but to begin it prospectively rich! The man who has not experienced it cannot imagine the curse of it.

Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man who owes his greatness to his country’s ruin!

There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.

Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.

Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.

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

If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation before birth.

The Edge… there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.

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

We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.

If I was a billionaire, I’d be smart with my money.

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

Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.

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

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

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Eight years involved with the nuclear industry have taught me that when nothing can possible go wrong and every avenue has been covered, then is the time to buy a house on the next continent.

There is always a present and extant life, be it better or worse, which all combine to uphold.

We all get weary sometimes, and we tend to think that life is what makes us weary.

I’ll tell you one thing, since I’m married, single people look absolutely ridiculous to me.

Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.

It’s life isn’t it? You plow ahead and make a hit. And you plow on and someone passes you. Then someone passes them. Time levels.

Contrary to the claims of some of my critics and some of the editorial pages, I am an ardent believer in the free market.

I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss.

Money’s important. Everyone cares about money. And when you don’t have money, money becomes the overriding obsession of your life.

I feel like the way I was raised was to be able to see through all the titles in this world – from religion to race.

Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

I look forward to a great future for America – a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute.

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

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.

There is so much that people take for granted.

There is no room for military people, including our veterans, to see themselves as victims, even if so many of our countrymen are prone to relish that role.

My friends ask me if I want more kids, and I always say yes, I want more; it’s the best thing you can have in your life.

The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance – the idea that anything is possible.

If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn’t brood. I’d type a little faster.

In memory everything seems to happen to music.

The world is before you and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.

Millions of people die every day. Everyone’s got to go sometime.

Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

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.

An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.

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.

It’s different from being 21 and you think there’s endless amount of opportunities. At 33, the ending is much, much closer.

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

Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.

It is not your paintings I like, it is your painting.

In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.

Most of one’s life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.

A worthy woman personifies the truly noble and worthwhile attributes of life.

If you desire many things, many things will seem few.

Do not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees are cut down while crooked ones are left standing.

If you get something right, you really feel it, right in your chest, on stage. I think it’s an incomparable experience.

The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.

The world at large is less inequitable today than at any time in history. Number of people in abject poverty, as a percentage, is at all-time low.

I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

Two things control men’s nature, instinct and experience.

Oh, how I would like a poor Church, and for the poor.

Everybody is idealistic when you’re a kid.

Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

I don’t think I’ve ever worked so hard on something, but working on Macintosh was the neatest experience of my life. Almost everyone who worked on it will say that. None of us wanted to release it at the end. It was as though we knew that once it was out of our hands, it wouldn’t be ours anymore.