You can’t have a rigid view that all new taxes are evil.

A good thing to remember is somebody’s got it a lot worse than we do.

The worst evil of disregard for some law is that it destroys respect for all law.

The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in.

Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.

Kids will remind you that, even though you’ve gone down a road 100 times, it’s brand new for them – and that’s healthy.

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute.

If I went back to my 20-year-old self, what I would tell my 20-year-old self is, ‚You don’t know anything.‘ Because everyone, when they’re young, they think they know what’s going on in the world, and you don’t.

On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.

An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

It is impossible to experience one’s death objectively and still carry a tune.

It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.

Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?

An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.

Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories – and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories.

I have nothing to ask but that you would remove to the other side, that you may not, by intercepting the sunshine, take from me what you cannot give.

A stair not worn hollow by footsteps is, regarded from its own point of view, only a boring something made of wood.

It’s possible – you can never know – that the universe exists only for me. If so, it’s sure going well for me, I must admit.

I’m rather kind of old school, thinking that when an artist does his work, it’s no longer his… I just see what people make of it.

The frontier between hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.

Older people sit down and ask, ‚What is it?‘ but the boy asks, ‚What can I do with it?‘.

There may not be one Truth – there may be several truths – but saying that is not to say that reality doesn’t exist.

For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

Evil is whatever distracts.

Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

It’s useful to go out of this world and see it from the perspective of another one.

There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.

Too many people measure how successful they are by how much money they make or the people that they associate with. In my opinion, true success should be measured by how happy you are.

If it’s a penny for your thoughts and you put in your two cents worth, then someone, somewhere is making a penny.

I grew up with the biologists. I know how they think.

If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

I’m not confused. I’m just well mixed.

You’re dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway.

Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.

Mortality is very different when you’re 20 to when you’re 50.

No finite point has meaning without an infinite reference point.

Success and failure are equally disastrous.

Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial ‚we.‘

Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?

We should not say that one man’s hour is worth another man’s hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time’s carcass.

If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.

I don’t think it’s possible to have a sense of tragedy without having a sense of humor.

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.

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

When you’re born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you’re born in America, you get a front row seat.

Not everyone can see the truth, but he can be it.

A lot of people have it a lot worse than you do.

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.

There is love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look.

You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own. It’s just a matter of paying attention to this miracle.

The life which men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others?

Sin is geographical.

We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success.

Little things console us because little things afflict us.

It takes no more time to see the good side of life than it takes to see the bad.

All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.

What’s the use of happiness? It can’t buy you money.

Human life is far more important than just getting to the top of a mountain.