Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

My whole life and my whole career, even through my music, I tell people: let’s unify; let’s show more love.

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

Those parts of history that would undermine the vision of the Left – which prevails in our education system from elementary school to postgraduate study – are not likely to get much attention.

Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.

Life is anything but predictable.

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.

The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.

I no longer feel attracted to the well-made novel. I want to write the story that will zero in and give you intense, but not connected, moments of experience. I guess that’s the way I see life. People remake themselves bit by bit and do things they don’t understand.

Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man.

There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.

Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is impossible to foresee this, it is impossible to be warned.

Read about history, and you become aware that nothing starts with us.

And yet it moves.

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

That it will never come again is what makes life sweet.

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That’s relativity.

Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

There’s something about death that is comforting. The thought that you could die tomorrow frees you to appreciate your life now.

In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.

My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.

When I die, I’m gonna leave my body to science fiction.

I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.

I’m not resigned, but I’m realistic too. The statistics in my case are very poor. Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long. And the other wager is, the part of the wager, it’s a certainty you’ll have a terrible time and you may wish you were dying because it’s an awful process.

There is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell.

God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.

Respect is one of life’s greatest treasures. I mean, what does it all add up to if you don’t have that?

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it.

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.

I do think there must be some kind of interaction between your living life and the life that goes on from here.

Such as we are made of, such we be.

I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.

No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.

It’s the philosophies of being an athlete that carry me today.

Isn’t it funny how babies laugh a lot? I read a toddler, a young child laughs 300 times a day. The average adult laughs, like, four times a day. God put it in them. He put the laugh in us, but I think sometimes we let life get us down, you know, have bad breaks, and we lose our breaks.

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.

One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him.

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

One of the great questions of philosophy is, do we innately have morality, or do we get it from celestial dictation? A study of the Ten Commandments is a very good way of getting into and resolving that issue.

Had I pursued my education long enough to learn all the conventional dos and don’ts of starting a business, I often wonder how different my life and career might have been.

Life is not living in the suburbs with a white picket fence. That’s not life. Somehow our American culture has made it out that that’s what life needs to be – and that if it’s not that, it’s all screwed up. It’s not.

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.

The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

Don’t be a spectator, don’t let life pass you by.

When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.

The Public is merely a multiplied ‚me.‘

If you lose a big fight, it will worry you all of your life. It will plague you – until you get your revenge.

The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other.

Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad.

It’s presumptuous to say you know how somebody feels.

The words of truth are always paradoxical.

Thought once awakened does not again slumber; unfolds itself into a System of Thought; grows, in man after man, generation after generation, – till its full stature is reached, and such System of Thought can grow no farther, but must give place to another.

Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.