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.

Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.

Life would be tragic if it weren’t funny.

So thoroughly and sincerely are we compelled to live, reverencing our life, and denying the possibility of change. This is the only way, we say; but there are as many ways as there can be drawn radii from one centre. All change is a miracle to contemplate; but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant.

Even with all the advantages of retrospect, and a lot of witnesses dead and gone, you can’t make your life look as if you intended it or you were consistent. All you can show is how you dealt with various hands.

Science is but an image of the truth.

Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.

What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.

I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.

It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.

The design of the Mac wasn’t what it looked like, although that was part of it. Primarily, it was how it worked. To design something really well, you have to get it. You have to really grok what it’s all about. It takes a passionate commitment to really thoroughly understand something, chew it up, not just quickly swallow it.

Life begins on the other side of despair.

If I am judged for my work, many myths about me as an autocrat or otherwise would become clearer. I feel false propaganda will not last, and truth will ultimately prevail.

I remember I was flying home to Los Angeles one day. I was talking to the woman next to me and the flight attendant tried to tell me I was sitting next to somebody that I should know. I didn’t recognize her but it ended up being Beyonce’s sister, Solange Knowles.

Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.

In whatever adulation you get, there’s truth and there’s not truth. And wherever they dog you, and they say it was horrible – there’s truth and there’s not truth. It’s human nature to like to read the adulation more.

There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.

The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn’t intended.

What I’ve discovered is that in art, as in music, there’s a lot of truth-and then there’s a lie. The artist is essentially creating his work to make this lie a truth, but he slides it in amongst all the others. The tiny little lie is the moment I live for, my moment. It’s the moment that the audience falls in love.

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.

North Americans don’t understand… that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity.

You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.

Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.

Just as courage is the danger of life, so is fear its safeguard.

The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.

Fifty years of isolating Cuba had failed to promote democracy, setting us back in Latin America. That’s why we restored diplomatic relations, opened the door to travel and commerce, and positioned ourselves to improve the lives of the Cuban people.

My life has been one great big joke, a dance that’s walked a song that’s spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.

Science is increasingly answering questions that used to be the province of religion.

The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.

Can the mind see the truth of its own incapacity to know the unknown? Surely if I see very clearly that my mind cannot know the unknown, there is absolute quietness.

The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words. This life, to which neither time nor eternity can bring diminution – this everlasting living soul, began. My mind loses itself in these depths.

Basically it starts with four months of training, just basic stretching, kicking and punching. Then you come to the choreography and getting ready to put the dance together.

I think, often, people who run away are people who got into things most enthusiastically, and then they want more. They just demand more of life than what is happening in the moment. Sometimes this is a great mistake, as it’s always a good deal different than you expect it.

Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.

Death is just life’s next big adventure.

Myths which are believed in tend to become true.

Peace if possible, truth at all costs.

In matters of truth the fact that you don’t want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it.

Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.

That’s the shock: All cliches are true. The years really do speed by. Life really is as short as they tell you it is. And there really is a God – so do I buy that one? If all the other cliches are true… Hell, don’t pose me that one.

All I really had was a suitcase and my drums. So I took them up to Seattle and hoped it would work.

I am the man who accompanied Jacqueline Kennedy to Paris, and I have enjoyed it.

Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts.

A lot of truth is said in jest.

Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.

Some may never live, but the crazy never die.

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.

I was always very curious as a young man about why older writers who I met seemed so indifferent to what was going on, whereas I, in my 20s, was reading everything. Everything seemed important. But they were only interested in the writers they admired when they were young, and I didn’t understand it then, but now, now I understand it.

One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one’s death, one dies one’s life.

The decision to serve a mission will shape the spiritual destiny of the missionary, his or her spouse, and their posterity for generations to come. A desire to serve is a natural outcome of one’s conversion, worthiness, and preparation.

There are lies, damned lies and statistics.

How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.

To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one’s experiences in common.

Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience and being persistent.

Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy.

There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation.

The life so short, the craft so long to learn.

I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.

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

To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions.