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

The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.

I gave in, and admitted that God was God.

There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.

I’m not concerned with your liking or disliking me… All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.

When I write, it’s like choosing which shoes I’m going to put on. More often than not, my lyrics are personal – but I sometimes have to put myself in other people’s shoes.

Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.

There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.

If you desire many things, many things will seem few.

I’m here as a product of process of evolution, which doesn’t make very many exceptions. And which rates life relatively cheaply.

Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one’s own character to himself.

The loss of life will be irreplaceable.

Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience and being persistent.

Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences.

But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man’s eyes.

The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.

Life is tragic. You are tiny and flawed and ignorant and weak, and everything else is huge, complex, and overwhelming.

Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.

I refuse to allow any man-made differences to separate me from any other human beings.

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.

I don’t think culture is something you can describe.

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

Even with all the advantages of retrospect, and a lot of witnesses dead and gone, you can’t make your life look as if you intended it or you were consistent. All you can show is how you dealt with various hands.

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

Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly, even if they roll a few stones upon it.

Human life is far more important than just getting to the top of a mountain.

I do think there must be some kind of interaction between your living life and the life that goes on from here.

Everything is clearer when you’re in love.

Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.

My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.

To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.

No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned… a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.

Do not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees are cut down while crooked ones are left standing.

As you know, I’m an immigrant. I came over here as an immigrant, and what gave me the opportunities, what made me to be here today, is the open arms of Americans. I have been received. I have been adopted by America.

I don’t care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members.

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.

The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

Life tends to be an accumulation of a lot of mundane decisions, which often gets ignored.

Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.

Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.

I’ve reached the point where I hardly care whether I live or die. The world will keep on turning without me, and I can’t do anything to change events anyway.

That’s the shock: All cliches are true. The years really do speed by. Life really is as short as they tell you it is. And there really is a God – so do I buy that one? If all the other cliches are true… Hell, don’t pose me that one.

I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we’re really talking about peace.

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

They are resilient children, but they are children, and as much as they need help to understand the hard truths in life, they also need what we all need – protection and love.

People see things differently and remember things differently. It’s why if somebody robs a liquor store and there are four witnesses they’ll often disagree.

My life as a child did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.

It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

Commodities such as gold and silver have a world market that transcends national borders, politics, religions, and race. A person may not like someone else’s religion, but he’ll accept his gold.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

I was a peripheral visionary. I could see the future, but only way off to the side.

Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world.

The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.

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.

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made.

There is no wealth but life.

We do not judge the people we love.

This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.