Reality has a way of intruding. Reality eventually intrudes on everything.

The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.

Getting money is not all a man’s business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner.

Life is anything but predictable.

Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that’s how we’ve got to live.

People gonna be they own individuals and have they own worlds and I can’t knock it.

No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to.

We spend our lives, all of us, waiting for the great day, the great battle, or the deed of power. But that external consummation is not given to many: nor is it necessary. So long as our being is tensed, directed with passion, towards that which is the spirit of all things, then that spirit will emerge from our own hidden, nameless effort.

There’s place and means for every man alive.

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.

We all die, we all get sick, we all feel hunger and lust and pain, and therefore human life is consistent from one generation to the other. We all – most of us, anyway – want connections with other people and spend our lives looking for them.

Growing old has been the greatest surprise of my life.

To not to have entirely wasted one’s life seems to be a worthy accomplishment, if only for myself.

If anything, I get most upset because I wanna read a good paper first thing in the morning. And if I see a lie about myself flash across the front of the cover, I don’t think much of the rest of the newspaper.

My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him.

If anyone offers conjectures about the truth of things from the mere possibility of hypotheses, I do not see by what stipulation anything certain can be determined in any science, since one or another set of hypotheses may always be devised which will appear to supply new difficulties.

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.

It’s not proper for the government to intrude too thoroughly into the domain of the family. It’s inappropriate.

Life is wasted on the living.

If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different.

Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.

What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?

Part of the reason there’s an injunction to the truth, for example, is that if you’re in a circumstance of extreme uncertainty, your best weapon, let’s say, or your best tool or your best defense is the truth, because it keeps things simpler.

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

What’s done can’t be undone.

Everybody’s journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.

A man has a tendency to accept you the way you are, while most women immediately start to pick flaws and want to change you.

I think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me.

Death is a fearful thing.

Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.

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.

To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing.

I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain’t so.

Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them.

Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

My life is real.

What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.

When we value correct principles, we have truth – a knowledge of things as they are.

We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.

Gays are some of the nicest, kindest, most loving people in the world.

I can’t help the way you was born if you was gay.

All my life I’ve looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.

The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

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

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.

My whole life has been one big improvisation.

Children make your life important.

Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.

I was born on a full moon. Both my children were born on full moons, too. Some people say that’s scary. It is what it is, man, I don’t be trippin‘. I couldn’t tell God when I wanted to be born.

Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

There’s something about death that is comforting. The thought that you could die tomorrow frees you to appreciate your life now.

I think that when we know that we actually do live in uncertainty, then we ought to admit it; it is of great value to realize that we do not know the answers to different questions. This attitude of mind – this attitude of uncertainty – is vital to the scientist, and it is this attitude of mind which the student must first acquire.

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that’s going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it.

Do you know the only value life has is what life puts on itself?

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.