The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.

The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.

Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he.

Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.

I know that war is very cruel and that life is harder when you aren’t able to live in the place you called home.

It’s not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it’s the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.

Nothing burns more calories than dancing in 5-inch heels… try it!

I think Bible principles are principles for life.

What we need is a system of thought – you might even call it a religion – that can bind humans together. A system that would fit the Republic of Chad as well as the United States: a system that would supply our idealistic young people with something to believe in.

God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.

No one can pass through life, any more than he can pass through a bit of country, without leaving tracks behind, and those tracks may often be helpful to those coming after him in finding their way.

Personality is everything in art and poetry.

I’m fascinated by the fact that we can’t grasp anything about time.

When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.

Everybody is going to have their critics. It’s easy to get discouraged in life.

Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.

Religion is part of the human make-up. It’s also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy.

But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us.

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.

We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven.

Art is the proper task of life.

Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

The spirit of an age may be best expressed in the abstract ideal arts, for the spirit itself is abstract and ideal.

I didn’t know the term ‚synesthesia‘ until I was working on ‚Cruel Summer.‘ Halfway into writing that, I really understood that, my entire life, I had been trying to describe this condition of mine: through painting, through this seven-screen Surround Vision film we shot in Qatar, through all these things.

Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.

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

The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.

I don’t have stylistic loyalty. That’s why people perceive me changing all the time. But there is a real continuity in my subject matter. As an artist of artifice, I do believe I have more integrity than any one of my contemporaries.

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.

It is not your paintings I like, it is your painting.

There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.

There is in me an anarchy and frightful disorder. Creating makes me die a thousand deaths, because it means making order, and my entire being rebels against order. But without it I would die, scattered to the winds.

If any philosopher had been asked for a definition of infinity, he might have produced some unintelligible rigmarole, but he would certainly not have been able to give a definition that had any meaning at all.

To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.

The universe is transformation: life is opinion.

In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

There is no love of life without despair of life.

I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

The good is the beautiful.

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

No man was ever wise by chance.

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

Man is unable to see himself entirely unrelated to mankind, neither is he able to see mankind unrelated to life, nor life unrelated to the universe.

Man has throughout the ages been seeking something beyond himself, beyond material welfare – something we call truth or God or reality, a timeless state – something that cannot be disturbed by circumstances, by thought or by human corruption.

Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.

In art, at a certain level, there is no ‚better than.‘ It’s just about trying to operate for yourself on the most supreme level, artistically, that you can and hoping that people get it.

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.

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

There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman.

I have learned, in my life and work as a sportswriter, that big-time Sports and big-time Politics are not so far apart in America. They are both a means to the same end, which is victory… And why not? Victory is good for you, and don’t let anybody tell you different.

The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in.

We all get weary sometimes, and we tend to think that life is what makes us weary.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

Knowledge is true opinion.

The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Whoever will be born must destroy a world.