Our lifelong certainties about the world can be demolished in a single second.

When one has finished building one’s house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really needed to know in the worst way – before one began.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

The worst men often give the best advice.

There are many victories worse than a defeat.

So when these people sell out, even though they get fabulously rich, they’re gypping themselves out of one of the potentially most rewarding experiences of their unfolding lives. Without it, they may never know their values or how to keep their newfound wealth in perspective.

Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.

If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve.

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

Life, if well lived, is long enough.

Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot withstand faith; it cannot withstand truth. The wall cannot withstand freedom.

Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?

It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.

If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn’t brood. I’d type a little faster.

Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There’s plenty of movement, but you never know if it’s going to be forward, backwards, or sideways.

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.

All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.

I think we all change each other’s paths. I don’t know which law idea that is in physics, but I don’t think any of us can live without affecting one another.

All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one’s own in the midst of abundance.

Never marry someone in hope that they’ll change later.

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

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

Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.

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

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.

I think Bible principles are principles for life.

The things I talk about and explain couldn’t happen – yet, they don’t seem impossible – you could say I talk about the world in an abstract perspective. But then, the world is basically insane – and it’s trying to pass itself off as being a sane place. I show it for what it is.

When we enter into a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, something wonderful happens: God begins to change our desires, and we want to be more like Him.

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

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

I have nothing to ask but that you would remove to the other side, that you may not, by intercepting the sunshine, take from me what you cannot give.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future.

Technology is huge; I wanted to learn about it. People might say that’s odd, but I think it’s odd if artists aren’t interested in the world around them. I’m always chasing that.

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

We all want to win more, but it’s all about being blessed and embracing your blessings. We have life.

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.

There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor.

When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways – either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength. Thanks to the teachings of Buddha, I have been able to take this second way.

Art’s everything we hope life would be, a lot of times.

It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

We cannot wish for that we know not.

There is nothing insignificant in the world. It all depends on the point of view.

There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

Life is a matter of really tough choices.

I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.

My life is mine to remember.

Fame doesn’t fulfill you. It warms you a bit, but that warmth is temporary.

I don’t know if I particularly want to be remembered for anything. I personally do not think I’m a great gift to the world. I’ve been very fortunate.

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th‘ observer’s sake.

The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.

We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.

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.

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.