Nature teaches us that tens of billions of light years may have passed, and life in all of its expressions has always been subjected to an incredible combination of matter and radiation.

I have no hostility to nature, but a child’s love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.

Life must be lived as play.

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.

This has been my life for many years; one role feeds the other.

There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.

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

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Time stays, we go.

In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

The extreme weakness of quantum gravitational effects now poses some philosophical problems; maybe nature is trying to tell us something new here: maybe we should not try to quantize gravity.

In a way, the whole tangible universe itself is a vast residue, a skeleton of countless lives that have germinated in it and have left it, leaving behind them only a trifling, infinitesimal part of their riches.

Once I knew only darkness and stillness… my life was without past or future… but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.

Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.

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

In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.

Chance is an element of life. What I try to do is study what I call the mechanics of reality as carefully as I can.

One of the most basic factors in sports is that winning becomes a habit, and losing is the same way. When failure starts to feel normal in your life or your work or even your darkest vices, you won’t have to go looking for trouble, because trouble will find you. Count on it.

Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

O wise man! Give your wealth only to the worthy and never to others. The water of the sea received by the clouds is always sweet.

The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

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.

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.

We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

The loss of life will be irreplaceable.

Man and animals are in reality vehicles and conduits of food, tombs of animals, hostels of Death, coverings that consume, deriving life by the death of others.

Life’s short. Anything could happen, and it usually does, so there is no point in sitting around thinking about all the ifs, ands and buts.

The life which men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others?

The man who has no problems is out of the game.

We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.

Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one’s never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.

Reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.

In this business you have to develop a thick skin, but I’m always going to feel everything. It’s my nature.

Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.

That it will never come again is what makes life sweet.

Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.

People think, because we’re young, we aren’t complex, but that’s not true. We deal with life and love and broken hearts in the same way a woman a few years older might.

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.

The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

I often visited a particular plant four or five miles distant, half a dozen times within a fortnight, that I might know exactly when it opened.

The gigantic tension before the shooting of an arrow, and the total relaxation seconds later, is my way of connecting to the universe.

Life doesn’t imitate art, it imitates bad television.

It’s in responsibility that most people find the meaning that sustains them through life. It’s not in happiness. It’s not in impulsive pleasure.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

There is an orderliness in the universe, there is an unalterable law governing everything and every being that exists or lives. It is no blind law; for no blind law can govern the conduct of living beings.

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

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

Dying is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down.

It’s wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.

Old age is just a record of one’s whole life.