No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

To live is to think.

The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

Little things console us because little things afflict us.

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.

Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.

I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.

No policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion can be permanently maintained.

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

If you have the opportunity to play this game of life you need to appreciate every moment. A lot of people don’t appreciate the moment until it’s passed.

I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary.

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 can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.

Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.

The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.

Life is tragic. You are tiny and flawed and ignorant and weak, and everything else is huge, complex, and overwhelming.

No finite point has meaning without an infinite reference point.

We all have done something unethical.

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

Keep in mind that no matter how perfectly you get your life in order, you will never be rid of all your problems. Problems are a way of life, always have been, always will be. But how you elect to view those problems is all up to you.

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

In every parting there is an image of death.

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased.

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

We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.

The time has come for all evangelists to practice full financial disclosure. The world is watching how we walk and how we talk. We must have the highest standards of morality, ethics and integrity if we are to continue to have influence.

Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.

Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.

For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.

I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.

My philosophy is: It’s none of my business what people say of me and think of me.

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

We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which we are is sinful, irrespective of guilt.

The whole is more than the sum of its parts.

It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.

We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.

The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.

The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.

Life is an adventure, it’s not a package tour.

In that film, the man and the part met. As far as I’m concerned, that part is Greg’s for life. I’ve had many, many offers to turn it into musicals, into TV or stage plays, but I’ve always refused.

There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.

To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.

On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.

Man was made at the end of the week’s work, when God was tired.

Change alone is unchanging.

We are not without empathetic terror when we open Pascal’s ‚Pensees‘ and read, ‚I am the great silent spaces between worlds.‘

The drama and the trauma of the relationship you have when you’re 16 can mirror the one you have when you’re 26. Life repeats itself.

There’s something about death that is comforting. The thought that you could die tomorrow frees you to appreciate your life now.

Akron, Ohio, is my home. It will always be remembered. Akron, Ohio, is my life.

Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.

Thought is the parent of the deed.

Those who have been writing literature have not been writing life.