The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall.

Man’s main concern is not to gain pleasure or to avoid pain but rather to see a meaning in his life.

My heart always warms to people who do not come to see me, especially Americans, to whom it seems to be more of an effort.

Say, for what were hop-yards meant,
Or why was Burton built on Trent?
Oh many a peer of England brews
Livelier liquor than the Muse,
And malt does more than Milton can
To justify God’s ways to man.

Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out … and perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.

Always keep in your mind that ambition is something that always puts you in or makes you end up in the meanest offices no matter whether you wish to go there by yourself or not.

Music is the biggest tool of revolution — the best way to reach out to the youth and involve them. If you can’t contribute to the world with your art, I don’t see the meaning of life.

Words have the power to heal, to transform, to connect us to one another

Personal connections are a gold dig for writing to investigate, comprehend, to portray

Promise you won’t forget me, ever. Not even when I’m a hundred.

Sometimes I believe that this less material life is our truer life, and that our vain presence on the terraqueous globe is itself the secondary or merely virtual phenomenon.

Now all my tales are based on the fundemental premise that common human laws and interests and emotions have no validity or significance in the vast cosmos-at-large…. To achieve the essence of real externality, whether of time or space or dimension, one must forget that such things as organic life, good and evil, love and hate, and all such local attributes of a negligible and temporary race called mankind, have any existence at all.

Pay attention to where you are going because without meaning you might get nowhere.

Knowing what’s right doesn’t mean much unless you do what’s right.

To love someone means to see him as God intended him.

One must love life before loving its meaning … yes, and when the love of life disappears, no meaning can console us.

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.

The meaning of life is that it stops.

Justice… is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.

Never say that I have taken it, only that I have given it back.

Night is purer than day; it is better for thinking, loving and dreaming. At night everything is more intense, more true. The echo of words that have been spoken during the day takes on a new and deeper meaning.

Life belongs to man, but the meaning of life is beyond him.

The expression similia similes is a Latin phrase and means that an imaginary disease can best be cured by an imaginary remedy.

I mean I love movement. I mean the energy that comes from the way I move. We get energy from how we move. I mean the control I get from knowing everything about how my body feels and how it is working.

Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off.

It was like the beginning of life and laughter. It was the real meaning of the sun

As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.

Don’t matter if you f*ck with me, I get money regardless.

You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.

Not bragging by any means, but I could have done a lot of other stuff as far as working in films go and working in television. I had chances to do that stuff, but I like baseball, I really do.

Just when I discovered the meaning of life, they changed it.

I wanna live. I don’t wanna die. That’s the whole meaning of life: Not dying! I figured that shit out by myself in the third grade.