To live outside the law, you must be honest.

Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.

The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.

Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.

Man’s unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.

Actor’s life is very long.

Thinking fragments reality – it cuts it up into conceptual bits and pieces.

The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.

Life, if well lived, is long enough.

The best and safest method of philosophizing seems to be first to inquire diligently into the properties of things, and establishing those properties by experiments, and then to proceed more slowly to hypotheses for the explanation of them.

Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

Ethics and power are separate.

High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.

Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.

Don’t be a spectator, don’t let life pass you by.

Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.

The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao; the name that can be named is not the eternal name. The Nameless is the origin of Heaven and Earth; the Named is the mother of all things.

I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect.

If life gives you limes, make margaritas.

How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?

I know now that there is no one thing that is true – it is all true.

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

From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.

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.

Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.

Half a truth is often a great lie.

It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, – superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.

Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.

The universe is transformation: life is opinion.

No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another.

The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in.

The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks.

Getting money is not all a man’s business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

I really believe in the philosophy that you create your own universe. I’m just trying to create a good one for myself.

Taste cannot be controlled by law.

Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.

I don’t think there is any philosophy that suggests having polio is a good thing.

In the game of cricket, a hero is a person who respects the game and does not corrupt the game. The one who doesn’t or corrupts the game, they are the villain. They should be punished, and they have been punished in the past.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty.

Over the years I’ve seen people lose a spouse and then withdraw and lose interest in life, and I believe we need to resist that.

Life is grim, and we don’t have to be grim all the time.

Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one’s own character to himself.

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one’s self on lies and fables.

Thought is the parent of the deed.

I would never do a commercial if I thought it was offensive to anyone.

I think life on Earth must be about more than just solving problems… It’s got to be something inspiring, even if it is vicarious.

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.

The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

My life is real.

I joyfully hasten to meet death. If it come before I have had opportunity to develop all my artistic faculties, it will come, my hard fate notwithstanding, too soon, and I should probably wish it later – yet even then I shall be happy, for will it not deliver me from a state of endless suffering?

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

In a magazine, one can get – from cover to cover – 15 to 20 different ideas about life and how to live it.

In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.

Good men by nature, wish to know. I know that many will call this useless work… men who desire nothing but material riches and are absolutely devoid of that of wisdom, which is the food and only true riches of the mind.

Akron, Ohio, is my home. It will always be remembered. Akron, Ohio, is my life.

Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.

All my stepchildren carried the burden of my fame. Sometimes they would read terrible things about me, and I’d worry about whether it would hurt them. I would tell them: ‚Don’t hide these things from me. I’d rather you ask me these things straight out, and I’ll answer all your questions.‘

We all want to win more, but it’s all about being blessed and embracing your blessings. We have life.