Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

We should not say that one man’s hour is worth another man’s hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time’s carcass.

You have to like the present; if not your life becomes secondhand, if you think it was better before. Or that it will be better in the future.

When you’re doing a film and the majority of the film is cast black, for me, it’s most important to get people to view those movies as just movies, as just good movies. At the end of the day, regardless of the color of the cast, we’re all doing the same thing in this business: trying to make a good film.

He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.

He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.

The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.

What’s real freedom? Real freedom is being able to not have my way and still be just as happy as if I did.

The idea is to try to give all the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgment in one particular direction or another.

We do not know what is really good or bad fortune.

Never give a sword to a man who can’t dance.

The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

At times in my life the only place I have been happy is when I am on stage.

We will explore the mysteries of science and harness the power of technology and innovation. We will realise the opportunities of the digital world. Our youth will learn more from – and with – each other.

A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.

God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even… knowledge, was foolproof.

Only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. One is to let her think she is having her own way, and the other is to let her have it.

There are a lot of ‚chicken Christians.‘ Chickens are generally afraid of life, and they seldom fly or reach their potential in life. And when a storm comes, all they seem to do is flap around the chicken yard, stirring up dirt and running to the chicken house.

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.

Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow.

Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.

It all went wrong with football, the thing I loved most of all, and from there, my life slowly fell apart.

The game is changing with songs like ‚Earned It‘ as opposed to it changing me.

Have you ever thought how humiliating and distressing it was to be placed upon a sphere? For friendship it is a boon never to be able to be further apart than the antipodes. But suppose that you are leaving together to go on and on; it is impossible. To go beyond a certain point is to return to where you began.

Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.

Start with God – the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.

I’ve made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I’m convinced of the opposite.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

You are the universe, you aren’t in the universe.

It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

Nothing recedes like progress.

‚Unforgiven‘ is probably an example of a script that I liked right away but thought, ‚This is great, but I’d like to do this when I’m older.‘ So I stuck it in the drawer for ten years and then took it out.

It was easy being healthy when I was young. I was full of energy, so sports and physical challenges were fun. But as I got older and the spring left my step, exercise became harder, and eating, drinking and watching TV became easier. By the time I was 50, I’d put on 50 pounds.

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

I am not a self-help writer. I am a self-problem writer. When people read my books, I provoke some things. I cannot justify my work. I do my work; it is up to them to classify it, to judge.

I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.

One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.

I am very happy playing and showing off my talent on the cricket field and have no plans to enter Bollywood.

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.

It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.

Cunning… is but the low mimic of wisdom.

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.

When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, ‚Oh yes – I already have everything that I really need.‘

Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope, and that enables you to laugh at life’s realities.

Where fear is, happiness is not.

I have rules for a lot of areas of my life. Love is not going to be one of them.

A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.

I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.

I’m not looking to get away from anything. I like what I’ve done. I like what I get to do and I enjoy working with my friends. I loved those movies, but this is incredible.

Where there is love there is life.

You just want something else that someone else has, but that doesn’t mean what you have isn’t beautiful, because people always want what you have, and you always want what they have – no one is ever 100 per cent like, ‚Yes, I’m the bomb dot com – from head to toe!‘