No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it.

Ageing’s alright, better than the alternative, which is not being here.

Nothing can come of nothing.

Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.

Over the years I’ve seen people lose a spouse and then withdraw and lose interest in life, and I believe we need to resist that.

All things in the world come from being. And being comes from non-being.

Evil is whatever distracts.

Life loves the liver of it.

That summer after the draft was probably the most fun I’ve ever had, because all I had to do every day was wake up and go work out for four or five hours. I got to play some golf, which I love to do, too, and then got to hang out with my family.

If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men’s cottage princes‘ palaces.

Real living is living for others.

Everything in excess is opposed to nature.

Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.

I play piano every day. I enjoy that.

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

I’m half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times.

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.

O wretched man, wretched not just because of what you are, but also because you do not know how wretched you are!

Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.

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 tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.

And yet it moves.

The fool wonders, the wise man asks.

We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man.

What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.

Without music, life would be a mistake.

I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.

If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.

‚I wish life was not so short,‘ he thought. ‚Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.‘

If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain conditions is equally a duty.

Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful.

It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.

My life has been very full.

Who would set a limit to the mind of man? Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?

I love a Hebrew National hot dog with an ice-cold Corona – no lime. If the phone rings, I won’t answer until I’m done.

What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.

Why are we here? Where do we come from? Traditionally, these are questions for philosophy, but philosophy is dead.

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

Science is nothing but perception.

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life – knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.

How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?

Enjoyment is an incredible energizer to the human spirit.

Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe.

Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.

For my career, I wouldn’t go racing if I didn’t enjoy it. I still need to have my say, and not just get put with a team and get told to deal with it.

I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.

The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

‚Tis better to bear the ills we have than fly to others that we know not of.

The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed.

It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.

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

I’m an atheist, and the concept of god for me is all part of what I call ‚the last illusion.‘ The last illusion is someone knows what is going on. Nearly everyone has that illusion somewhere, and it manifests not only in the terms of the idea that there is a god but that it knows what’s going on but that the planets know what’s going on.

But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.

All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.

There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor.

It is the greatest of all advantages to enjoy no advantage at all.

Man’s real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.