Time stays, we go.

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

I believe in believing. My coach John Kavanagh is a big atheist, and he is always trying to persuade people to his way of thinking, and I think, ‚What a waste of energy.‘ If people want to believe in this god or that god, that’s fine by me; believe away. But I think we can be our own gods. I believe in myself.

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You are fed, yet hunger gnaws you. You have been loved, but your yearning wanders in new fields. And to prod all these there’s time, the Bastard Time.

No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.

Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him.

My life is a struggle.

It is only a man’s own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else’s meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.

Ageing’s alright, better than the alternative, which is not being here.

The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don’t like their rules, whose would you use?

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

I am a part of everything that I have read.

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.

Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it.

When we look back on all the perils through which we have passed and at the mighty foes that we have laid low and all the dark and deadly designs that we have frustrated, why should we fear for our future? We have come safely through the worst.

I don’t think that faith, whatever you’re being faithful about, really can be scientifically explained. And I don’t want to explain this whole life business through truth, science. There’s so much mystery. There’s so much awe.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

I am certain no one sets out to be cruel, but our treatment of the elderly ill seems to have no philosophy to it. As a society, we should establish whether we have a policy of life at any cost.

Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.

Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.

The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.

To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.

Anything can make me stop and look and wonder, and sometimes learn.

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

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

There’s this lingering philosophy that movie stars shouldn’t do TV.

I’m an idealist without illusions.

Use, do not abuse… neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.

It is not living that matters, but living rightly.

The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.

One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people’s minds.

I want you to feel happy and enjoy the theatre of my life the way that I do. No matter what happens with my music and wherever I go – that heart of that glamorous girl in New York will never be gone.

Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it’s like they didn’t fade away at all.

We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.

I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.

Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.

As far as I’m concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.

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.

Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour.

For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

I don’t want to be too critical of what other people do, but when people go back to do the same thing that they did, I’m completely confused. I’m like, ‚Didn’t you make that movie already?‘ I’ve been very fortunate, and I’m well taken care of, so the least I can do is try to go forward.

I think 9/11 affected everybody in one way or another.

The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.

To insult someone we call him ‚bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, ‚human‘ might be the greater insult.

The act of dying is one of the acts of life.

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

A tree’s a tree. How many more do you need to look at?

No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.

We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy.

Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.

My life has been one great big joke, a dance that’s walked a song that’s spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.

Means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.

The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.

I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartanlike as to put to rout all that was not life.

He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.

There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.

If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.

If you stop struggling, then you stop life.