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

My life is my message.

Life is abundant, and life is beautiful. And it’s a good place that we’re all in, you know, on this earth, if we take care of it.

I second-guess and overthink and rethink every single thing that I do.

If a whole bunch of people want to make your life a living hell, they’re gonna do it.

God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.

For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.

Wonder is the basis of worship.

Life is not living in the suburbs with a white picket fence. That’s not life. Somehow our American culture has made it out that that’s what life needs to be – and that if it’s not that, it’s all screwed up. It’s not.

No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.

‚Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.

Life comes with many challenges. The ones that should not scare us are the ones we can take on and take control of.

Too often we… enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

There is no such thing as Something for nothing.

Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery’s shadow or reflection: the fact that you don’t merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.

In a magazine, one can get – from cover to cover – 15 to 20 different ideas about life and how to live it.

A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.

Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.

Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments.

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

I have lived long enough both in years and in accomplishments.

It is unwise to be too sure of one’s own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.

There’s no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.

It is only a man’s own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else’s meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.

Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

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

Dissents speak to a future age.

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.

The natural desire of good men is knowledge.

Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.

Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.

I’m so old, I don’t buy green bananas any more.

Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm.

For Africa to me… is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.

Whether for life or death, do your own work well.

He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering – and it’s all over much too soon.

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.

Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

I’m constantly thinking.

I have many regrets, and I’m sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret… if you have any sense, and if you don’t regret them, maybe you’re stupid.

He that sows thorns should never go barefoot.

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.

And no, we don’t know where it will lead. We just know there’s something much bigger than any of us here.

Words may show a man’s wit but actions his meaning.

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.

The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.

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

If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.

Art is the proper task of life.

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.

There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.

The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.

To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.

It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

To be radical, an empiricism must neither admit into its constructions any element that is not directly experienced, nor exclude from them any element that is directly experienced.