Life is a series of commas, not periods.

My philosophy is simple: It’s a down-home, common, horse-sense approach to things.

If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different.

Until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.

He not busy being born is busy dying.

Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.

Saints can be happy under every circumstance.

Only stupid people are changed by success.

You can’t have a rigid view that all new taxes are evil.

If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly by the hand, before I mix with other people; otherwise they would think my mind rather queer.

A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we’re children, but we bear the scars all our life. Whether they’re scars of beauty or scars of ugliness, it’s pretty much in the eye of the beholder.

I joyfully hasten to meet death. If it come before I have had opportunity to develop all my artistic faculties, it will come, my hard fate notwithstanding, too soon, and I should probably wish it later – yet even then I shall be happy, for will it not deliver me from a state of endless suffering?

Why don’t you start believing that no matter what you have or haven’t done, that your best days are still out in front of you.

I’ve found men are less likely to let petty things annoy them.

Life comes with many challenges. The ones that should not scare us are the ones we can take on and take control of.

I’m never a reliable narrator, unbiased or objective.

Obedience to God is the pathway to the life you really want to live.

All men by nature desire knowledge.

Do you know the only value life has is what life puts on itself?

Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.

Reality is a sliding door.

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

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.

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

I think that as you grow up, as you get older, we can’t get bitter, we can’t get jaded.

To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Religion and philosophy are to be preserved distinct. We are not to introduce divine revelations into philosophy, nor philosophical opinions into religion.

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.

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

Sooner or later, I hate to break it to you, you’re gonna die, so how do you fill in the space between here and there? It’s yours. Seize your space.

I don’t know where I’m going from here, but I promise it won’t be boring.

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there’s a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.

Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.

Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.

When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.

Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.

It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.

I actually don’t want a throne at all, because I don’t view myself as a queen; I view myself as one of my fans.

Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not.

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.

Premature certainty is the enemy of the truth.

I don’t ever want to be caught up in a system of thinking I can do one thing ‚cos that’s just… that’s just telling yourself a lie.

I suppose, in a way, this has become part of my soul. It is a symbol of my life. Whatever I have done that really matters, I’ve done wearing it. When the time comes, it will be in this that I journey forth. What greater honor could come to an American, and a soldier?

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

As a musician and a songwriter, it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in your point of view. But it is usually an empathetic nature that gets you going in the first place.

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.

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?

I’m a genetic optimist.

You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

I have always thought I was the best ever player.

I think that when we know that we actually do live in uncertainty, then we ought to admit it; it is of great value to realize that we do not know the answers to different questions. This attitude of mind – this attitude of uncertainty – is vital to the scientist, and it is this attitude of mind which the student must first acquire.

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

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

So many people have this idea: I want to achieve something great or be somebody great. And they neglect the step that leads to greatness. They don’t honor this step at this moment because they have this idea of some future moment where they are going to be great.

Live your life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift. There is nothing small in it. Far the greatest things grow by God’s law out of the smallest. But to live your life, you must discipline it.

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.

Some men see things as they are, and say why. I dream of things that never were, and say why not.