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

I expected to die. At no time before the trial did I expect to escape with my life. Yet being executed in the gas chamber did not necessarily mean defeat. It could be one more step to bring the community to a higher level of consciousness.

Well, if Fortune be a woman, she’s a good wench for this gear.

All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.

The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.

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

Whatever is well said by another, is mine.

Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me.

I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.

To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.

Dying is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down.

Stay hungry, stay foolish.

He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.

I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there.

It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.

I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.

There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life’s July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November.

When all is said and done, more is said than done.

Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we’re atheist. Our existence is beyond our understanding. No one has an answer.

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.

Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.

One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

I definitely connected to the fact that life gets out of control and you end up doing things and wishing you were doing other things instead.

No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.

As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.

I’m not trying to follow a set of rules and stuff. I’m just living my life.

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.

More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.

Of life’s two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer’s hand.

It is normal to give away a little of one’s life in order not to lose it all.

Mars is the only place in the solar system where it’s possible for life to become multi-planetarian.

Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.

No one should be ashamed to admit he is wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world.

I’ve been afraid of people playing their life away with too many toys.

Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.

People who don’t like my work say that the connections seem too arbitrary. But that’s how life is.

We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows.

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.

If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.

And no, we don’t know where it will lead. We just know there’s something much bigger than any of us here.

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?

The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.

Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.

Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.

He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.

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

The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That’s the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead!

Sooner or later, I hate to break it to you, you’re gonna die, so how do you fill in the space between here and there? It’s yours. Seize your space.

My favorite things in life don’t cost any money. It’s really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.

Life is warfare.

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

There is only a finger’s difference between a wise man and a fool.

Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.

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.

Golf is a good walk spoiled.

Always do sober what you said you’d do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

I work very hard, and I play very hard. I’m grateful for life. And I live it – I believe life loves the liver of it. I live it.