The life which men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others?

No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.

By the time you’ve reached your sixties, you do know that one day you will die, and knowing that is at least the beginning of wisdom.

There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.

There is probably a perverse pride in my administration… that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who’s occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can’t be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.

We all gonna die eventually from something or other, but don’t be a wimp. Put up a good fight.

I certainly respect the belief of the Hobby Lobby owners. On the other hand, they have no constitutional right to foist that belief on the hundreds and hundreds of women who work for them who don’t share that belief.

The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other.

Unbeing dead isn’t being alive.

Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.

The astronomer will believe that the most erratic comet will yet accomplish its journey and revisit our sphere; but we give up those for lost who have not wandered one-half the distance from the centre of light and life.

I think it does Discworld good if I don’t write about it all the time: sometimes you have to get it out of your system.

Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.

Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

Being too good is apt to be uninteresting.

What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

In every parting there is an image of death.

There may not be one Truth – there may be several truths – but saying that is not to say that reality doesn’t exist.

I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

While we should never give up our principles, we must also realize that we cannot maintain our principles unless we survive.

He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.

Even as you make progress, you need the discipline to keep from backtracking and sabotaging the success as it’s happening.

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.

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?

Men weren’t always happy for me. It was very challenging to watch a woman be so successful.

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

If you lose a big fight, it will worry you all of your life. It will plague you – until you get your revenge.

Some men see things as they are, and say why. I dream of things that never were, and say why not.

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

Hollywood is a place where they’ll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.

I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.

I’ve made money, and I’ve been ripped off. I’ve had creative freedom, and I’ve been pressured to make hits. I have dealt with diva behavior from crazy musicians, and I have seen genius records by wonderful artists get completely ignored. I love music. I always will.

We don’t want to promote any system that treats the fact that an individual is LGBT as a personality disorder. And anything that perpetuates that perception is harmful – not only to that member of the community but the entire community.

To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

My definition of country music is really pretty simple. It’s when someone sings about their life and what they know, from an authentic place.

The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.

The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.

People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

Collegiality is crucial to the success of our mission. We could not do the job the Constitution assigns to us if we didn’t – to use one of Justice Antonin Scalia’s favorite expressions – ‚Get over it!‘

I never wanted to stay in one genre; I never wanted to be pigeon-holed or defined as the actor who only worked in one genre. I want to be able to work in all different genres. For me it’s fun, and that’s how I grow as an actor.

The idea that there is one kind of African is, of course, ridiculous. Sometimes African entrepreneurs want to kill you because you are saying public health is the priority, not roads. Of course they are right to press for that issue, but so are we right, I believe, to argue, for example, that millions of children could and should be vaccinated.

Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

I’ve watched a lot of people who became famous who completely change and I think it’s because they tend to believe all the hype that’s out there. I don’t think there’s that much hype about me.

Superstition is the poetry of life.

Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.

I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

Measure your wealth by what you’d have left if you lost all your money.

Right now, when we’re hearing so much disturbing and hateful rhetoric, it is so important to remember that our diversity has been – and will always be – our greatest source of strength and pride here in the United States.

It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.

I believe the returns on investment in the poor are just as exciting as successes achieved in the business arena, and they are even more meaningful!

No such thing as a man willing to be honest – that would be like a blind man willing to see.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.

My principles are more important than the money or my title.

The best augury of a man’s success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.