One day it will be over, and I don’t care.

It may be, it just may be, that life as we know it with its humanity is more unique than many have thought.

I was kind of secretly hoping one of my kids would go out and make a million bucks. So when they put me in a home, at least I’ll have a window with a view.

Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

The poetry you read has been written for you, each of you – black, white, Hispanic, man, woman, gay, straight.

One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.

God tells us not to judge one another, no matter what anyone’s sexual preferences are or if they’re black, brown or purple.

You can’t imagine parlor ballads drifting out of high-rise multi-towered buildings. That kind of music existed in a more timeless state of life.

When you look at the sun during your walking meditation, the mindfulness of the body helps you to see that the sun is in you; without the sun there is no life at all and suddenly you get in touch with the sun in a different way.

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

Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.

Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.

A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.

When you go to war as a boy, you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed, not you… Then, when you are badly wounded the first time, you lose that illusion, and you know it can happen to you.

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

The minority is sometimes right; the majority always wrong.

I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following.

Not only is there but one way of doing things rightly, but there is only one way of seeing them, and that is, seeing the whole of them.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

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

I long for the time when all human history is taught as one history, because it really is.

Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.

It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture.

Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.

Life is a series of commas, not periods.

Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.

When I was young, poverty was so common that we didn’t know it had a name.

Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.

Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don’t let yourself believe it will happen to you.

You get one life. I’m going to embrace mine.

A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer’s hand.

What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.

I don’t know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope.

Everybody is idealistic when you’re a kid.

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.

I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.

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.

Death is not the worst that can happen to men.

Life is grim, and we don’t have to be grim all the time.

An example I often use to illustrate the reality of vanity, is this: look at the peacock; it’s beautiful if you look at it from the front. But if you look at it from behind, you discover the truth… Whoever gives in to such self-absorbed vanity has huge misery hiding inside them.

I’ll die a crazy old man!

In war, you win or lose, live or die – and the difference is just an eyelash.

As far as I’m concerned, I’m a writer who’s writing books, and therefore, I don’t want to die. You’d miss the end of the book wouldn’t you? You can’t die with an unfinished book.

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

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.

I’ve never considered musical equipment very sacred.

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

Where lipstick is concerned, the important thing is not color, but to accept God’s final word on where your lips end.

I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.

Life is not accumulation, it is about contribution.

I’m 5’11, so when I wear heels, it’s definitely a really good view that I have. I’m, like, 6’2 when I wear heels, so I tend to wear cowboy boots a lot.

We are moving towards a world that is reordering itself and that may appear more ordered at some periods of time, but I see no sign that we are moving towards a world order in my definition of it – namely, a system which is accepted, which is internalized by the majority of the key participants.

Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

I’d rather be optimistic and wrong than pessimistic and right.

I have a strong feeling that I shall be glad when I am dead and done for – scrapped at last to make room for somebody better, cleverer, more perfect than myself.

To me, if life boils down to one thing, it’s movement. To live is to keep moving.