Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven’t committed.

Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.

I always was a rich person because money’s not related to happiness.

The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

People think, because we’re young, we aren’t complex, but that’s not true. We deal with life and love and broken hearts in the same way a woman a few years older might.

It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

Find what’s hot, find what’s just opened and then look for the worst review of the week. There is so much to learn from watching a restaurant getting absolutely panned and having a bad experience. Go and see it for yourself.

Any experience that touches you, in any particular way, is good. It can be a horrible experience.

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.

In terms of doing work and in terms of learning and evolving as a person, you just grow more when you get more people’s perspectives… I really try and live the mission of the company and… keep everything else in my life extremely simple.

To be radical, an empiricism must neither admit into its constructions any element that is not directly experienced, nor exclude from them any element that is directly experienced.

Some people feel that the world owes them a living.

Nothing fortifies scepticism more than the fact that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong.

I don’t pretend to understand the Universe – it’s a great deal bigger than I am.

The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is.

The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.

A fool is wise in his eyes.

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It’s self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can’t try to do things. You simply must do things.

Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.

If you see everything from the point of view of women being victims in some way, you don’t see the wood for the trees. It is better to be a person than a woman.

Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.

After many years of great mercy, after tasting of the powers of the world to come, we still are so weak, so foolish; but, oh! when we get away from self to God, there all is truth and purity and holiness, and our heart finds peace, wisdom, completeness, delight, joy, victory.

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.

If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion.

Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search of it when he has grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul.

It’s not that I’m afraid to die. I just don’t want to be there when it happens.

I don’t want to make money, I just want to be wonderful.

I know how fiction matters to me, because if I want to express myself, I have to make up a story. Some people call it imagination. To me, it’s not imagination. It’s just a way of watching.

You will always have partial points of view, and you’ll always have the story behind the story that hasn’t come out yet. And any form of journalism you’re involved with is going to be up against a biased viewpoint and partial knowledge.

Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.

If a man had more than one life, I think a little hanging would not hurt this one; but after he is once dead, we cannot bring him back, no matter how sorry we may be; so the boy shall be pardoned.

I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.

Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise.

Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.

The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.

I’ve been running a full marathon every year for more than 20 years, and my record is getting worse. Getting older, getting worse. It’s natural.

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

All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.

Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.

It is not your paintings I like, it is your painting.

My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.

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

I’m here as a product of process of evolution, which doesn’t make very many exceptions. And which rates life relatively cheaply.

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.

I’m a career prosecutor. I have been trained, and my experience over decades, is to make decisions after a review of the evidence and the facts. And not to jump up with grand gestures before I’ve done that. Some might interpret that as being cautious. I would tell you that’s just responsible.

Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.

A witty saying proves nothing.

For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.

I have an expression I use as I’ve gone around the world through my career: ‚You never tell another man or woman what’s in their interest. They know their interest better than you know their interest.‘

We view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes; we have no wish to find them alike.

What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?

Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.

Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.

Sitting idle at home is the most painful experience for a footballer.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear.

You can’t think; you just gotta do things.

Man is the most intelligent of the animals – and the most silly.

I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine.