No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.

All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.

Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.

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

Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.

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

The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.

We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Sincere words are not fine; fine words are not sincere.

Being ‚contented‘ ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position.

Since God created the world, He also created reality.

I would be stupid not to be on my own side. But I’m a human being, too. And I’m on the side of human beings, rather than on the side of crocodiles.

Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.

Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.

It’s a lot easier to stay idealistic if you don’t sign two to five next-of-kin letters every day.

Those parts of history that would undermine the vision of the Left – which prevails in our education system from elementary school to postgraduate study – are not likely to get much attention.

You can’t have a relationship with a device whose limits are unknown to you, because without limits, it keeps becoming something else.

A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.

A lot of the things that will really improve the world fortunately aren’t dependent on Washington doing something different.

No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.

See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse.

The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

Soon, I’ll be like all the others. The time will come for all of us, but the ideas of the Cuban Communists will remain.

Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect.

If I died tomorrow, I would be a happy girl.

What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity.

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

In football, it’s the job of the player to play, the coach to coach, the official to officiate. Each guy is charged with upholding his end, nothing more. In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely. Golf really is the best microcosm of life – or at least the way life should be.

A lot of people in our industry haven’t had very diverse experiences. So they don’t have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one’s understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.

All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.

I don’t pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.

I believe that God breathed life into every person and that every person is made in the image of God and you have accept them as they are, on their journey. I’m not here to preach hate or push people down.

Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

All great change in America begins at the dinner table.

To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

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

Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.

Most of one’s life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.

Too many people measure how successful they are by how much money they make or the people that they associate with. In my opinion, true success should be measured by how happy you are.

Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear?

My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.

Players today moan about the number of games, but when you’re young, you can’t play enough.

The universe is wider than our views of it.

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

A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.

The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

My father probably thought the capital of the world was wherever he was at the time. It couldn’t possibly be anyplace else. Where he and his wife were in their own home, that, for them, was the capital of the world.

We don’t get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? So this is what we’ve chosen to do with our life.

I grew up in a very nice house in Houston, went to private school all my life and I’ve never even been to the ‚hood. Not that there’s anything wrong with the ‚hood.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is impossible to foresee this, it is impossible to be warned.

It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world – that is the myth of the atomic age – as in being able to remake ourselves.

I believe everyone should have a good death. You know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. Because after all, tears are appropriate on a death bed. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop.

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