We live in a bewildering world.

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

An unused life is an early death.

In a way, the whole tangible universe itself is a vast residue, a skeleton of countless lives that have germinated in it and have left it, leaving behind them only a trifling, infinitesimal part of their riches.

I simply can’t build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death… I think… peace and tranquillity will return again.

For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.

In that film, the man and the part met. As far as I’m concerned, that part is Greg’s for life. I’ve had many, many offers to turn it into musicals, into TV or stage plays, but I’ve always refused.

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.

I’ll die a crazy old man!

I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.

There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.

All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, the conceptual word, which has so unfortunately divided man.

The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.

Love is the missing factor; there is a lack of affection, of warmth in relationship; and because we lack that love, that tenderness, that generosity, that mercy in relationship, we escape into mass action, which produces further confusion, further misery.

Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.

My heart aches for America and its deceived people.

Life is either a great adventure or nothing.

In December, I agreed to extend the tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans because it was the only way I could prevent a tax hike on middle-class Americans. But we cannot afford $1 trillion worth of tax cuts for every millionaire and billionaire in our society. We can’t afford it. And I refuse to renew them again.

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

No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.

Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.

My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.

I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.

Educators take something simple and make it complicated. Communicators take something complicated and make it simple.

The universe is transformation: life is opinion.

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.

Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.

War is a way of shattering to pieces… materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and… too intelligent.

Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

Our lifelong certainties about the world can be demolished in a single second.

If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a nonworking cat.

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

I think, often, people who run away are people who got into things most enthusiastically, and then they want more. They just demand more of life than what is happening in the moment. Sometimes this is a great mistake, as it’s always a good deal different than you expect it.

I would just like to say something, ladies and gentlemen. Something that I think is very important. It is that, you, we – we own this country. We – we own it. It is not you owning it, and not politicians owning it. Politicians are employees of ours.

We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

While victimhood in America is exalted, I don’t think our veterans should join those ranks.

The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.

There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.

If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different.

On the whole, we think of our consumers – other judges, lawyers, the public. The law that the Supreme Court establishes is the law that they must live by, so all things considered, it’s better to have it clearer than confusing.

Look at our society. Everyone wants to be thin, but nobody wants to diet. Everyone wants to live long, but few will exercise. Everybody wants money, yet seldom will anyone budget or control their spending.

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.

The people of England are the most enthusiastic in the world.

The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.

We only need so much to survive, but this world we live in tells us we need more stuff to be happy. We’re inundated with our televisions, the Internet and advertising that says in order to be happy you have to have these things. When you say, ‚Gimme, gimme, gimme,‘ you will always be in short supply.

It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.

If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace.

Life is a journey. When we stop, things don’t go right.

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

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

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

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

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

The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.

Life is a series of commas, not periods.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.

What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.