The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

There is nothing permanent except change.

One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.

In modern war… you will die like a dog for no good reason.

I don’t keep people around me that aren’t family. You don’t get to stay. Unless you’re eating at the table with us, you’re not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.

I love to flirt, and I’ve never met a man I didn’t like.

Hate has no place in the house of God.

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

Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.

Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.

Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved.

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.

He didn’t come out of my belly, but my God, I’ve made his bones, because I’ve attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I’m so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.

Everything is clearer when you’re in love.

The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.

Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.

Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.

You can’t do something forever.

It is most unwise for people in love to marry.

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

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

You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?

May we so love as never to have occasion to repent of our love!

We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.

My thought is me: that is why I cannot stop thinking. I exist because I think I cannot keep from thinking.

It’s not possible to stop love.

Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect.

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.

The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.

Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.

When I worked on a magazine, I learned that there are many, many writers writing that can’t write at all; and they keep on writing all the cliches and bromides and 1890 plots, and poems about Spring and poems about Love, and poems they think are modern because they are done in slang or staccato style, or written with all the ‚i’s‘ small.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

Heaven is dumb, echoing only the dumb.

Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.

He that loves to be flattered is worthy o‘ the flatterer.

There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.

There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.

To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself into a victim. When you speak out, you are in your power. So change the situation by taking action or by speaking out if necessary or possible; leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness.

Speak low, if you speak love.

I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about dying, but I like to think that I’ve – if it did occur – that I would die peacefully and not make too much of a fuss about it.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Suppose you could gain everything in the whole world, and lost your soul. Was it worth it?

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

I have a strong feeling that I shall be glad when I am dead and done for – scrapped at last to make room for somebody better, cleverer, more perfect than myself.

Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.

Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil… prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon.

You’ve got to reach a hand of friendship across the aisle and across philosophies in this country.

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

What I believe is that marriage is between a man and a woman, but what I also believe is that we have an obligation to make sure that gays and lesbians have the rights of citizenship that afford them visitations to hospitals, that allow them to be, to transfer property between partners, to make certain that they’re not discriminated on the job.

Change alone is unchanging.

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

When you give, it comes back to you.

Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.

You have to give others the opportunity to love who you love. If they don’t accept it, it’s their loss.

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their ending!

The stroke of death is as a lover’s pinch, which hurts and is desired.

I don’t really focus on these things – on what tags are given to me or what people think of me off the field – stuff like that. My main focus is always to do well on the field for the Indian cricket team. When people say good things about me off the field, I am more than happy to accept them.