There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Truth is weirder than any fiction I’ve seen.

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.

Europe has what we do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a word, of tragedy. And we have what they sorely need: a sense of life’s possibilities.

Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.

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

The safety of the people shall be the highest law.

It is normal to give away a little of one’s life in order not to lose it all.

It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.

I know how to swim through backlash. I can tread water through backlash… If anything, that’s all giving me power.

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

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.

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

Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.

We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

My whole life has been one big improvisation.

Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.

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.

Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces.

The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one’s opponent.

Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.

We do not know what love is. We know the symptoms of it, the pleasure, the pain, the fear, the anxiety and so on. We try to solve the symptoms, which becomes a wandering in darkness. We spend our days and nights in this, and it is soon over in death.

My career as Nipsey Hussle is based on my life as Ermias Asghedom.

This lady is not for turning.

Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true.

I have finally decided to write my book on the spiritual life. I mean to put down as simply as possible the sort of ascetical or mystical teaching that I have been living and preaching so long. I call it ‚Le Milieu Divin,‘ but I am being careful to include nothing esoteric and the minimum of explicit philosophy.

In fact men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth – often more so, since a superstition is so intangible you cannot get at it to refute it, but truth is a point of view, and so is changeable.

I spend a lot of time just, you know, with my girlfriend and my dog. And I mean, we don’t have a lot of furniture in our house, so it’s really simple. And we’re trying to build products for everyone in the world, right. And you don’t want to get isolated to do that.

Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.

I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.

The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.

On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.

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

A lot of people are afraid to tell the truth, to say no. That’s where toughness comes into play. Toughness is not being a bully. It’s having backbone.

From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.

Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain’t goin‘ away.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.

There’s place and means for every man alive.

There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.

Think not that humility is weakness; it shall supply the marrow of strength to thy bones. Stoop and conquer; bow thyself and become invincible.

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

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.

No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.

I think that a good mountaineer is usually a sensible mountaineer.

I don’t argue when people say that my message is simple, but I believe Jesus‘ message was simple. Jesus didn’t go around condemning people.

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.

We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.

I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.

There are people in the world who have skills and strength and talent that I will never have. Never. These notions that you can ‚be whatever you want to be as long as you want it bad enough‘ are not true. They are fairy tales.

First, how do we give everyone a fair shot at opportunity and security in this new economy? Second, how do we make technology work for us, and not against us – especially when it comes to solving urgent challenges like climate change? Third, how do we keep America safe and lead the world without becoming its policeman?

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

Life is better when people are working, happy, and spending money.

By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.