Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

Don’t get older just to get wiser. If you get older, you will be wiser, I believe that – if you dare. But get older because it’s fun!

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.

Earn your success based on service to others, not at the expense of others.

There is moderation even in excess.

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.

Life’s too short to hang out with people who aren’t resourceful.

Personal columnists are jackals and no jackal has been known to live on grass once he had learned about meat – no matter who killed the meat for him.

The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.

Man’s real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

To the wicked, everything serves as pretext.

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.

As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.

What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.

God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.

God has already done everything He’s going to do. The ball is now in your court. If you want success, if you want wisdom, if you want to be prosperous and healthy, you’re going to have to do more than meditate and believe; you must boldly declare words of faith and victory over yourself and your family.

In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.

I don’t think your ability to fight has anything to do with how big you are. It’s to do with how much anger is in you.

The main rule to me is to honor God with your life. To life a life of integrity. Not be selfish. You know, help others. But that’s really the essence of the Christian faith.

If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?

I’m quite a chauvinistic person.

Things won are done, joy’s soul lies in the doing.

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.

Life is the childhood of our immortality.

You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

Half a truth is often a great lie.

While there’s life, there’s hope.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

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?

The astronomer will believe that the most erratic comet will yet accomplish its journey and revisit our sphere; but we give up those for lost who have not wandered one-half the distance from the centre of light and life.

When you stand for something, you’ve got to stand for it all the way, not half way.

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.

Patience is not simply the ability to wait – it’s how we behave while we’re waiting.

Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.

I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something.

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Character is power.

And die of nothing but a rage to live.

The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?

Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.

If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.

We think that life develops spontaneously on Earth, so it must be possible for life to develop on suitable planets elsewhere in the universe. But we don’t know the probability that a planet develops life.

Common sense is the genius of humanity.

Life is too short for long-term grudges.

Build a man a fire, and he’ll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he’ll be warm for the rest of his life.

Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God.

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

Life’s tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.

We conceal it from ourselves in vain – we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

He not busy being born is busy dying.

Comedians are sociologists. We’re pointing out stuff that the general public doesn’t even stop to think about, looking at life in slow-motion and questioning everything we see.

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

Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.

Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

If one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the value of other ornamentation?