Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.

I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you know?

Every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.

Most home teams have chapels, so when I’m on the road I’ll probably go to their services.

I never woke up and thought, ‚I really want to live a bold life.‘

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.

There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.

The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.

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

It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.

All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.

It may be, it just may be, that life as we know it with its humanity is more unique than many have thought.

Facts are stubborn things.

We’re introducing separate rooms with double beds in all of our planes so people can actually go with their partner and have a proper night’s sleep.

The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.

The essence of lying is in deception, not in words.

Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating. We must march toward these two goals, painfully but resolutely, certain in advance of our failings on so long a road.

The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don’t mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.

At the age of 6, a teacher full of ambitions, who taught in the small public school of Biran, convinced my family that I should travel to Santiago de Cuba to accompany my older sister who would enter a highly prestigious convent school. Including me was a skill of that very teacher from the little school in Biran.

All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.

Rebellion is what you make of it. When you’ve been on a tour bus for two months straight, and then you get in your car and drive wherever you want, that can feel rebellious.

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.

The life of an uneducated man is as useless as the tail of a dog which neither covers its rear end, nor protects it from the bites of insects.

My faith helps me understand that circumstances don’t dictate my happiness, my inner peace.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

It’s wonderful to be here in the great state of Chicago.

Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

I’ve been here before and will come again, but I’m not going this trip through.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

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

Instead of judging people, we need to pray.

Before beginning, plan carefully.

If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.

With the casino and the beds, our passengers will have at least two ways to get lucky on one of our flights.

People want to go out and travel around and meet cool people. I could just go live in Vermont, but is that what I really want?

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

I was gutted to leave my boyfriend at home when I started my tour, but taking my pillow was like taking a little bit of him with me.

The act of dying is one of the acts of life.

I don’t pretend to understand the Universe – it’s a great deal bigger than I am.

My career as Nipsey Hussle is based on my life as Ermias Asghedom.

I still live, I still think: I still have to live, for I still have to think.

Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn’t.

Here ends my forever memorable first High Sierra excursion. I have crossed the Range of Light, surely the brightest and best of all the Lord has built. And, rejoicing in its glory, I gladly, gratefully, hopefully pray I may see it again.

One of the things that I have admired about India is the spiritualism of the people.

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.

Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.

Life isn’t meant to be easy. It’s hard to take being on the top – or on the bottom. I guess I’m something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things… Life is one crisis after another.

It seems the older you get, the more life comes into focus.

Part of what confuses people in times of upheaval is that you’re getting so many different points of view and directions and so and so, how to do this and do that. And a lot of it is written in a language that honestly most people cannot understand.

Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.

Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

When one travels around the world, one notices to what an extraordinary degree human nature is the same, whether in India or America, in Europe or Australia.

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

I’m really good at sleeping on planes. I mean, I smell jet fuel and I’m out; I’m asleep for takeoff.

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.

The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.

All great truths begin as blasphemies.