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

Things do not change; we change.

It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.

For me, there are two types of people: the young and the experienced.

I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.

A lot of churches have not moved with the times.

It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.

Anytime we step out boldly to make changes, we take a chance that we might fail. But the only way to get better is to try.

I don’t know what ‚normal‘ means, anyway.

Last year we said, ‚Things can’t go on like this‘, and they didn’t, they got worse.

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: ‚I’m with you kid. Let’s go.‘

Life is too short not to celebrate nice moments!

Step with care and great tact, and remember that Life’s a Great Balancing Act.

The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.

Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven.

The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.

Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things.

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight… the truly wise person is colorblind.

Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it.

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.

A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.

Change in all things is sweet.

It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.

Revolutions go not backward.

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems and suffer and understand, for all that is life.

If life gives you limes, make margaritas.

No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it.

People in Latin America… love America from afar and emulate America in some ways but also hate a lot of things that America does to them.

Everything’s fine today, that is our illusion.

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

My career as Nipsey Hussle is based on my life as Ermias Asghedom.

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last – but eat you he will.

Life is not accumulation, it is about contribution.

People’s minds are changed through observation and not through argument.

It is not like I have gone crazy, I just don’t want to take any chances. You never know what could happen.

The life so short, the craft so long to learn.

There is something curiously boring about somebody else’s happiness.

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

Modern science says: ‚The sun is the past, the earth is the present, the moon is the future.‘ From an incandescent mass we have originated, and into a frozen mass we shall turn. Merciless is the law of nature, and rapidly and irresistibly we are drawn to our doom.

One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.

The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.

You can live within the institutions and work hard to change them.

I believe that one person can make a difference.

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.

There is no love of life without despair of life.

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

I had the classic 40 meltdown. I did. It’s embarrassing. It was pretty funny. But then I recovered. To me, it was like a second adolescence. Hormonally, my body was changing, my mind was changing, and so my relationship to myself and the world around me came to this assault of finiteness.

I joyfully hasten to meet death. If it come before I have had opportunity to develop all my artistic faculties, it will come, my hard fate notwithstanding, too soon, and I should probably wish it later – yet even then I shall be happy, for will it not deliver me from a state of endless suffering?

I make preparations both to live and to die every day, but with the emphasis on not dying, and on acting as if I was going to carry on living.

I liked his ability to deal with a lot of the negativity that surrounded him. Even though he was in a world that he didn’t want to be in, he still saw the bigger picture.

To be renewed is everything. What more could one ask for than to have one’s youth back again?

The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity – or it will move apart.

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.

A man’s as miserable as he thinks he is.