Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.

On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.

If you stop struggling, then you stop life.

We should all start to live before we get too old.

In too much of the West, everyone wants the guarantee of safety, and never having to make any decisions.

If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.

I’ll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours.

I had a lovers quarrel with the world.

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.

Nothing on this earth is standing still. It’s either growing or it’s dying. No matter if it’s a tree or a human being.

The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I’m against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.

I’m not anti-middle-class in the slightest. Look at me! I am very pro people putting time and money and effort into trying to improve the world.

Single life is so overrated.

It has so happened in all ages of the world that some have labored, and others have, without labor, enjoyed a large proportion of the fruits.

When I found somebody who I fell in love with, it made me feel different than I felt the rest of the day. It was electrifying. That’s what inspired the ‚Off to the Races‘ melodies. That’s one of the times when you’re feeling electrified by someone else and they make you happy to be alive.

The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.

Life is an adventure, it’s not a package tour.

I learned a great many years ago that in a fight between husband and wife, a third party should never get between the woman’s skillet and the man’s ax-helve.

Searching is half the fun: life is much more manageable when thought of as a scavenger hunt as opposed to a surprise party.

Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.

The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

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

I’m not really that girl who dreams about her wedding day.

I haven’t had that one great love, which is good. I don’t want that to be in the past – I want it to be in the future.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

We forge the chains we wear in life.

Why are our days numbered and not, say, lettered?

Most people are happy being average. Most are happy being faceless in a sea of faces.

What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?

When the people we love stop paying attention, trust begins to slip away and hurt starts seeping in.

No one can pass through life, any more than he can pass through a bit of country, without leaving tracks behind, and those tracks may often be helpful to those coming after him in finding their way.

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

I’ve found that men I’ve dated who are in the same business can be really competitive. I’ve found a great group of girlfriends in the same business who aren’t competitive, but a few times guys have started comparing careers and it has been… challenging.

It is better to be deceived by one’s friends than to deceive them.

In most communities it is illegal to cry ‚fire‘ in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims?

Our single most important challenge is therefore to help establish a social order in which the freedom of the individual will truly mean the freedom of the individual.

In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most lasting bond.

You can’t be in love with a Google search.

I know love is the answer.

You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems and suffer and understand, for all that is life.

Nature teaches us that tens of billions of light years may have passed, and life in all of its expressions has always been subjected to an incredible combination of matter and radiation.

A strong man doesn’t have to be dominant toward a woman. He doesn’t match his strength against a woman weak with love for him. He matches it against the world.

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.

What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning.

Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we’re atheist. Our existence is beyond our understanding. No one has an answer.

I just genuinely feel that that’s what you do when you’re an artist: You stick up for the people around you.

All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.

I’m not saying that love always takes you to heaven. Your life can become a nightmare. But that said, it is worth taking the risk.

To me, if life boils down to one thing, it’s movement. To live is to keep moving.

We think that life develops spontaneously on Earth, so it must be possible for life to develop on suitable planets elsewhere in the universe. But we don’t know the probability that a planet develops life.

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

I don’t have a type. I don’t have a specific kind of human being. It’s just kind of an X-factor of sorts. Everybody I’ve ever dated has been a case-by-case situation.

Life would be tragic if it weren’t funny.

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

To cut short the question of the law of retaliation, we must note that even in its primitive form it can operate only between two individuals of whom one is absolutely innocent, and the other absolutely guilty. The victim, to be sure, is innocent. But can the society that is supposed to represent the victim lay claim to innocence?

Sometimes you can’t prioritise family and you feel guilty.

Every man’s life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.

I can’t relate to lazy people. We don’t speak the same language. I don’t understand you. I don’t want to understand you.