Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.

I don’t believe in an outside agent that creates the world, then walks away. But I feel very strongly there is an intelligence at work in every flower, in every blade of grass, in every cell of my body. And it is that intelligence that, I wouldn’t say created the universe. It is creating the universe. It’s an ongoing process.

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.

The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.

There’s no one thing that is true. They’re all true.

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.

There’s no political point worth my son’s life.

He who gives away shall have real gain. He who subdues himself shall be free; he shall cease to be a slave of passions. The righteous man casts off evil, and by rooting out lust, bitterness, and illusion do we reach Nirvana.

There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

My justification is that most people my age spend a lot of time thinking about what they’re going to do for the next five or ten years. The time they spend thinking about their life, I just spend drinking.

I’m not afraid to die, I just don’t want to be there when it happens.

The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

I want to thank my Eritrean fans for feeling connected to me and for supporting me. I feel extremely grateful.

Is man one of God’s blunders? Or is God one of man’s blunders?

Something’s very wrong with a nation that would rather spend money on war than take care of its children.

I definitely connected to the fact that life gets out of control and you end up doing things and wishing you were doing other things instead.

I would rather have peace in the world than be President.

Before God we are all equally wise – and equally foolish.

But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul.

I don’t believe in killing whatever the reason!

Intolerance betrays want of faith in one’s cause.

And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.

It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.

There is nothing permanent except change.

A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.

Creative people don’t behave very well generally. If you’re looking for examples of good relationships in show business, you’re gonna be depressed real fast. I don’t have time for anything else right now but work and my daughter. She’s my first priority.

A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt.

Means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.

I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.

I want to thank you for taking time out of your day to come and witness my hanging.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.

Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.

Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.

Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet.

It is not your paintings I like, it is your painting.

I don’t know what’s better gettin‘ laid or gettin‘ paid.

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.

May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.

First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.

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.

It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live.

Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.

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

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

The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks.

It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.

Morality is of the highest importance – but for us, not for God.

Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.

Knowledge is true opinion.

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.

Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.