We’re all going to die, all of us; what a circus! That alone should make us love each other, but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities. We are eaten up by nothing.

It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.

We will always be a family. Always.

Secretly we’re all a little more absurd than we make ourselves out to be.

O‘ What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!

It isn’t what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.

Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness.

Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.

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

How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean.

Our life is made by the death of others.

My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success.

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

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.

I think I am smart unless I am really, really in love, and then I am ridiculously stupid.

What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.

You can’t be in love with a Google search.

Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.

Life would pall if it were all sugar; salt is bitter if taken by itself; but when tasted as part of the dish, it savours the meat. Difficulties are the salt of life.

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

I believe everyone should have a good death. You know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. Because after all, tears are appropriate on a death bed. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop.

Strength and compassion are not mutually exclusive.

I live halfway between reality and theater at all times. And I was born this way.

What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal.

We want justice, but at the same time, we gotta love and come together and bring unity, and I feel it’s gonna happen.

When I was 11, the whole world was closed to me. I just felt I was on the outside of the world.

My gold, my money couldn’t stop cancer from appearing on my body. If they can’t save me, then I don’t need them.

Go up in an airplane. Go high enough, and it’s like we don’t even exist.

For me, when I picture the person I want to end up with, I don’t think about what their career is, or what they look like. I picture the feeling I get when I’m with them.

The fame isn’t important to me. It’s a blessing to have. Having so many people that support me, that love me and listen to my music, is beautiful.

I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.

In the flush of love’s light, we dare be brave. And suddenly we see that love costs all we are, and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free.

Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.

This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.

Mad or glad, Mr. Reagan is head over heels in love with Mrs. Reagan and can’t even imagine a world without her – He loves her.

People talk to people who perceive nothing, who have open eyes and see nothing; they shall talk to them and receive no answer; they shall adore those who have ears and hear nothing; they shall burn lamps for those who do not see.

It’s presumptuous to say you know how somebody feels.

If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don’t need an enemy.

Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing but pure misery there never is any recourse to the mention of it.

Death is a fearful thing.

If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Love in all its subtleties is nothing more, and nothing less, than the more or less direct trace marked on the heart of the element by the psychical convergence of the universe upon itself.

Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.

When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.

Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously.

Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.

The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Life is wasted on the living.

Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.

From my standpoint, being an artist, I want to see what the new construction is between artist and audience.

People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.

Death is just life’s next big adventure.