The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.

To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger.

Acting is just a way of making a living, the family is life.

I think God gives every one of us our own will, and unfortunately, some people choose to do evil things with it.

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

Life is warfare.

Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

What we live by we die by.

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

So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.

A trifle consoles us, for a trifle distresses us.

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

He who doesn’t pray to the Lord prays to the devil.

It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

The future influences the present just as much as the past.

Religion and philosophy are to be preserved distinct. We are not to introduce divine revelations into philosophy, nor philosophical opinions into religion.

There is nothing so stable as change.

I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It’s called living.

Life is not living in the suburbs with a white picket fence. That’s not life. Somehow our American culture has made it out that that’s what life needs to be – and that if it’s not that, it’s all screwed up. It’s not.

Trouble brews when we steal from the poor and give to the rich.

Theology is unnecessary.

While there’s life, there’s hope.

Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

To the dumb question, ‚Why me?‘ the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply, ‚Why not?‘

Neil Young is my hero, and such a great example. You know what that guy has been doing for the past 40 years? Making music. That’s what that guy does. Sometimes you pay attention, sometimes you don’t. Sometimes he hands it to you, sometimes he keeps it to himself. He’s a good man with a beautiful family and wonderful life.

The good is the beautiful.

My philosophy is, it’s always very rewarding when you can make an audience laugh. I don’t mind making fun of myself. I like self-deprecating comedy. But I’d like you to laugh with me occasionally, too.

If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.

Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.

In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely. Golf really is the best microcosm of life – or at least the way life should be.

I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.

The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.

The great quest of life has always been to discover truth.

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.

The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.

Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other: given the upper, to find the under side.

Gujarat is the fourth state in the world where we have a separate climate-change department.

Because of lack of moral principle, human life becomes worthless. Moral principle, truthfulness, is a key factor. If we lose that, then there is no future.

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed.

Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.

Existence precedes and rules essence.

In everything one thing is impossible: rationality.

A man is but the product of his thoughts, what he thinks he becomes.

Music was an experience, intimately married to your life. You could pay to hear music, but after you did, it was over, gone – a memory.

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased.

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.

Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose.

Live your life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift. There is nothing small in it. Far the greatest things grow by God’s law out of the smallest. But to live your life, you must discipline it.

Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.

It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.

If a whole bunch of people want to make your life a living hell, they’re gonna do it.

Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.

Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.