There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.

When you get to a place where you understand that love and belonging, your worthiness, is a birthright and not something you have to earn, anything is possible.

I was adored once too.

Being ‚contented‘ ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position.

It is the greatest of all advantages to enjoy no advantage at all.

Some may never live, but the crazy never die.

Do everything as in the eye of another.

I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul.

But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

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

The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute.

Having nothing, nothing can he lose.

God made and governs the world invisibly, and has commanded us to love and worship him and no other God; to honor our parents and masters, and love our neighbours as ourselves; and to be temperate, just, and peaceable, and to be merciful even to brute beasts.

What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.

‚Tis better to bear the ills we have than fly to others that we know not of.

There are definitely people who disagree with certain creative decisions you make. Pleasing everyone is pretty hard.

The earth belongs to the living, not to the dead.

Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.

How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.

If life is a checker game, someone else is moving the pieces. It isn’t us. Don’t be surprised by amazing coincidences. There are no accidents. Consider, as I learned to do, the incredible interconnectedness of all of life.

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

Mine is only one of the millions of hearts broken over the death of Whitney Houston, I will always be grateful and in awe of the wonderful performance she did on my song, and I can truly say from the bottom of my heart, ‚Whitney, I will always love you. You will be missed.‘

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Whether for life or death, do your own work well.

Too many people measure how successful they are by how much money they make or the people that they associate with. In my opinion, true success should be measured by how happy you are.

Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.

Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.

Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.

Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.

The internal machinery of life, the chemistry of the parts, is something beautiful. And it turns out that all life is interconnected with all other life.

It’s a lot easier to stay idealistic if you don’t sign two to five next-of-kin letters every day.

Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

Character is destiny.

Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.

Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.

The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.

When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man’s life.

Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth; give him too much, the same.

Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

What we call Man’s power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.

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.

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

I’m here as a product of process of evolution, which doesn’t make very many exceptions. And which rates life relatively cheaply.

I believe everyone should have a broad picture of how the universe operates and our place in it. It is a basic human desire. And it also puts our worries in perspective.

I think that you can love people without it being the great love.

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost.

Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.

He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much.

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist.

Who can exhaust a man? Who knows a man’s resources?

We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.