The truth is you don’t know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people.

Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.

I love life because what more is there?

Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.

My kind of composing is more like the work of a gardener. The gardener takes his seeds and scatters them, knowing what he is planting but not quite what will grow where and when – and he won’t necessarily be able to reproduce it again afterwards either.

We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.

Bread without flesh is a good diet, as on many botanical excursions I have proved. Tea also may easily be ignored. Just bread and water and delightful toil is all I need – not unreasonably much, yet one ought to be trained and tempered to enjoy life in these brave wilds in full independence of any particular kind of nourishment.

Everybody’s youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.

When God sneezed, I didn’t know what to say.

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

I’m someone who likes plowing new ground, then walking away from it. I get bored easily. For me, the big thrill comes with the discovering.

I never felt settled or calm. You can’t really commit to life when you feel that.

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

If I wished to do something, even if I couldn’t find anyone who wanted to make the effort with me, I would go out solo climbing. I did find solo climbing very challenging and a little frightening. You knew that you were completely on your own, and you had to overcome all the problems and possible dangers.

The year 2100 will see eugenics universally established. In past ages, the law governing the survival of the fittest roughly weeded out the less desirable strains. Then man’s new sense of pity began to interfere with the ruthless workings of nature. As a result, we continue to keep alive and to breed the unfit.

If we don’t know life, how can we know death?

Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.

I’ll die a crazy old man!

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

There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now.

Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.

I set up situations that involve abandoning control and finding out what happens.

I’m a wandering gypsy.

People respond when you tell them there is a great future in front of you, you can leave your past behind.

To me, comedy is just twisting reality. It’s commenting or observing or twisting life.

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.

You can’t imagine parlor ballads drifting out of high-rise multi-towered buildings. That kind of music existed in a more timeless state of life.

When you go to the mountains, you see them and you admire them. In a sense, they give you a challenge, and you try to express that challenge by climbing them.

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

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.

There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.

I think if we didn’t contradict ourselves, it would be awfully boring. It would be tedious to be alive.

Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.

Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.

War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.

I no longer feel attracted to the well-made novel. I want to write the story that will zero in and give you intense, but not connected, moments of experience. I guess that’s the way I see life. People remake themselves bit by bit and do things they don’t understand.

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.

What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

I had a project for my life which involved 10 years of wandering, then some years of medical studies and, if any time was left, the great adventure of physics.

Change alone is unchanging.

It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably.

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

The life so short, the craft so long to learn.

I love to travel, but hate to arrive.

When in doubt, don’t.

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.

Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.

The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.

I like gaps; all my stories have gaps. It seems this is the way people’s lives present themselves.

Enlightenment is always there. Small enlightenment will bring great enlightenment. If you breathe in and are aware that you are alive – that you can touch the miracle of being alive – then that is a kind of enlightenment.

The only way to take sorrow out of death is to take love out of life.

Isn’t it funny how babies laugh a lot? I read a toddler, a young child laughs 300 times a day. The average adult laughs, like, four times a day. God put it in them. He put the laugh in us, but I think sometimes we let life get us down, you know, have bad breaks, and we lose our breaks.

In a universe that’s an intelligent system with a divine creative force supporting it, there simply can be no accidents. As tough as it is to acknowledge, you had to go through what you went through in order to get to where you are today, and the evidence is that you did.