Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.

Civilisations have been destroyed many times, and this civilisation is no different. It can be destroyed. We can think of time in terms of millions of years and life will resume little by little. The cosmos operates for us very urgently, but geological time is different.

I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.

I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

Where there is love there is life.

All the time, I’ve felt that life is a wager and that I probably was getting more out of leading a bohemian existence as a writer than I would have if I didn’t.

Every loss of life is terrible.

Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.

All art really does is keep you focused on questions of humanity, and it really is about how do we get on with our maker.

Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Chance is an element of life. What I try to do is study what I call the mechanics of reality as carefully as I can.

Life is like a wheel. Sooner or later, it always come around to where you started again.

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

To be awake is to be alive.

Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.

I think it matters whether someone has a good heart.

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

Just as courage is the danger of life, so is fear its safeguard.

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Time stays, we go.

One who does not know when to die, does not know how to live.

For time is the longest distance between two places.

I consider the fact that thousands of children die each day from starvation and a lack of medicine a crisis for humanity and a problem we must collectively attempt to solve.

The fact that our task is exactly commensurate with our life gives it the appearance of being infinite.

If you stop struggling, then you stop life.

When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.

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.

There are techniques of Buddhism, such as meditation, that anyone can adopt. And, of course, there are Christian monks and nuns who already use Buddhist methods in order to develop their devotion, compassion, and ability to forgive.

If a man had more than one life, I think a little hanging would not hurt this one; but after he is once dead, we cannot bring him back, no matter how sorry we may be; so the boy shall be pardoned.

The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors.

Some people focus more on sonics. Some people focus more on story. I focus on both sonics and story, but music sometimes, just music itself, can turn into more of a maths problem. I guess everything in life is a math problem, but it can be more about an empirical route to getting the symmetry that you want, and this vibe, sonically.

If you truly get in touch with a piece of carrot, you get in touch with the soil, the rain, the sunshine. You get in touch with Mother Earth and eating in such a way, you feel in touch with true life, your roots, and that is meditation. If we chew every morsel of our food in that way we become grateful and when you are grateful, you are happy.

If a whole bunch of people want to make your life a living hell, they’re gonna do it.

Life is just one damned thing after another.

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

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

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.

I have a dogmatic certainty: God is in every person’s life. God is in everyone’s life. Even if the life of a person has been a disaster, even if it is destroyed by vices, drugs or anything else – God is in this person’s life. You can – you must – try to seek God in every human life.

A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.

What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other’s folly – that is the first law of nature.

Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.

A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short.

The love we give away is the only love we keep.

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.

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

Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering – an image of death.

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.

I have rules for a lot of areas of my life. Love is not going to be one of them.

Fate pulls you in different directions.

If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.

Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

To err is human; to forgive, divine.

People say maybe we have a soul and chimpanzees don’t. I feel that it’s quite possible that if we have souls, chimpanzees have souls as well.

And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.