Life is like a wheel. Sooner or later, it always come around to where you started again.

When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man’s life.

Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities.

There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

What you see, but can’t see over is as good as infinite.

It is a most delightful reflection that if I come to the throne of God in prayer, I may feel a thousand defects, but yet there is hope. I usually feel more dissatisfied with my prayers than with anything else I do.

I have wondered about time all my life.

My dear brothers and sisters, the joy we feel has little to do with the circumstances of our lives and everything to do with the focus of our lives.

The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea.

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman.

God reigns when we take a liberal view, when a liberal view is presented to us.

The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.

As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.

I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

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

Little things affect little minds.

I’m not somebody that thinks about destiny and fate, but I don’t walk away from it when something unfolds.

You’re never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you’re never as bad as they say when you lose.

I remember when I first came to Washington. For the first six months you wonder how the hell you ever got here. For the next six months you wonder how the hell the rest of them ever got here.

These words dropped into my childish mind as if you should accidentally drop a ring into a deep well. I did not think of them much at the time, but there came a day in my life when the ring was fished up out of the well, good as new.

It’s not the destination that matters. It’s the change of scene.

I’m an idealist without illusions.

In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.

If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation before birth.

The mind of the painter must resemble a mirror, which always takes the colour of the object it reflects and is completely occupied by the images of as many objects as are in front of it.

Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.

I don’t believe we are supposed to go through life defeated and not having enough money to pay our bills or send our kids to college.

We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

Neil Young is my hero, and such a great example. You know what that guy has been doing for the past 40 years? Making music. That’s what that guy does. Sometimes you pay attention, sometimes you don’t. Sometimes he hands it to you, sometimes he keeps it to himself. He’s a good man with a beautiful family and wonderful life.

No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.

My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.

The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.

Children make your life important.

My one big regret is that I didn’t play on for ten more years.

The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom… in a clarification of life – not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.

What is history but a fable agreed upon?

Which death is preferably to every other? ‚The unexpected‘.

I think Bible principles are principles for life.

Who would ever think that so much went on in the soul of a young girl?

A cat is only itself, representative of the strong forces of life that won’t let go.

I’m not trying to follow a set of rules and stuff. I’m just living my life.

When someone is impatient and says, ‚I haven’t got all day,‘ I always wonder, How can that be? How can you not have all day?

Whenever a fellow tells me he’s bipartisan, I know he’s going to vote against me.

There was a while when I was feeling like, ‚Damn, if I’d just been born black, I would not have to go through all this‘.

Everything’s fine today, that is our illusion.

It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably.

I like being able to be on the inside of music, rather than on the outside listening to it.

In every parting there is an image of death.

Philosophy is the highest music.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

Art is the proper task of life.

I have an expression I use as I’ve gone around the world through my career: ‚You never tell another man or woman what’s in their interest. They know their interest better than you know their interest.‘

Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

The great quest of life has always been to discover truth.

Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.

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

The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.

When I look back on my life as a whole, it is impossible for me not to feel blessed.

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.