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.

No man is good enough to govern another man without the other’s consent.

Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven.

Some may never live, but the crazy never die.

Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms – in themselves such judgments are stupidities.

There’s something about being in front of a live audience that’s fun. It’s a really interesting, very electric, very alive, and intense experience, and you can’t get it anywhere else. And I’ve been doing it since I was 23, so it’s part of my being – it’s part of my fabric as a person.

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.

Fiction is like a spider’s web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.

Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.

When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.

In seeking comfort, we generally find a quiet corner in life where there is a minimum of conflict, and then we are afraid to step out of that seclusion.

While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile.

Don’t bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.

So the bodhisattva saves all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing them that they are delivered, they are liberated, by the act of not being able to stop changing.

Anything important is never left to the vote of the people. We only get to vote on some man; we never get to vote on what he is to do.

I want to – more than anything – to create a moment that people will never forget. Not for me, but for themselves. That’s what I remember about great Super Bowl performances in the past, when you really get lost in the moment with your family.

If you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree.

If you had your life to live over again, do it overseas.

Once you get into this great stream of history, you can’t get out.

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

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

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

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

The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.

Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.

Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.

The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.

When there’s justice and change, you start to see the cleansing of the soul, and that is what I want for people, and I hope it’s okay for me to say those things.

It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.

Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?

People who think you could wave a magic wand and the legacy of the past will be over are blind.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Death is a fearful thing.

I just have an enthusiasm for life.

Experience is the teacher of all things.

A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets.

Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?

I suppose we need not go mourning the buffaloes. In the nature of things, they had to give place to better cattle, though the change might have been made without barbarous wickedness.

When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first.

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

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can’t ride you unless your back is bent.

My favorite thing in life is writing about life, specifically the parts of life concerning love. Because, as far as I’m concerned, love is absolutely everything.

I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.

I’m not afraid to die, I just don’t want to be there when it happens.

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

There’s no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.

I mean, if you didn’t get it or if you didn’t feel like you enjoyed it, sometimes that experience can change.

When it’s your time, it is your time.

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 the law, the kind of law of quantity and quality, but I think the opportunity of people being able to express themselves and to have the means of production is a great thing. It’s also changing how we’re telling stories.

When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.

In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word experience have been perceived, with the result that realists have more and more avoided the word.

Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.

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

I’ve 20,000 hours of clinical practice; you’re not naive after the first few thousand. I’ve helped people deal with things that most people can’t imagine.