Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

The words of truth are always paradoxical.

Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.

It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.

My theory is 98 percent of all human endeavor is killing time.

Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.

In my house I’m the boss, my wife is just the decision maker.

The Tao teaches us not to intervene and interfere. The things we love we have to learn to leave alone. And the people we love we have to learn to let them be.

There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.

As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport.

Whether for life or death, do your own work well.

For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can’t be wrong whose life is in the right.

Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.

Truth is a pathless land.

Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.

Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform.

I have no desire to crow over anybody or to see anybody eating crow, figuratively or otherwise. We should all get together and make a country in which everybody can eat turkey whenever he pleases.

When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, ‚Did you sleep good?‘ I said ‚No, I made a few mistakes.‘

We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

When you look at the sun during your walking meditation, the mindfulness of the body helps you to see that the sun is in you; without the sun there is no life at all and suddenly you get in touch with the sun in a different way.

Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.

To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one’s being added to that being.

It is impossible to reason without arriving at a Supreme Being.

All people are born alike – except Republicans and Democrats.

I am a deeply religious nonbeliever – this is a somewhat new kind of religion.

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.

Such as we are made of, such we be.

My life is mine to remember.

It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one’s life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than ‚try to be a little kinder.‘

The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.

We are never further from what we wish than when we believe that we have what we wished for.

I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.

A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.

All variety of created objects which represent order and life in the universe could happen only by the willful reasoning of its original Creator, whom I call the ‚Lord God.‘

I sometimes wish I were suffering in a good cause, or risking my life for the good of others, instead of just being a gravely endangered patient.

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.

Take my wife… Please!

Nothing cannot exist forever.

The Four Levels of Comedy: Make your friends laugh, Make strangers laugh, Get paid to make strangers laugh, and Make people talk like you because it’s so much fun.

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

Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.

One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got into my pajamas I’ll never know.

The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed.

For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.

There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.

But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?

The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation.

As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.

Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.

All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure.

There is a ‚sanctity‘ involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

I think, often, people who run away are people who got into things most enthusiastically, and then they want more. They just demand more of life than what is happening in the moment. Sometimes this is a great mistake, as it’s always a good deal different than you expect it.

We must accept what science tells us, that man was born from the earth. But, more logical than the scientists who lecture us, we must carry this lesson to its conclusion: that is to say, accept that man was born entirely from the world – not only his flesh and bones but his incredible power of thought.

It’s funny; recently I’ve started to notice people’s impersonations of me, and it’s basically like a hyperactive child.

Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.

Sincere words are not fine; fine words are not sincere.

Life is better when people are working, happy, and spending money.

If anyone offers conjectures about the truth of things from the mere possibility of hypotheses, I do not see by what stipulation anything certain can be determined in any science, since one or another set of hypotheses may always be devised which will appear to supply new difficulties.