“Yes, very sensible... People die of common sense, Dorian, one lost moment at a time. Life is a moment. There is no hereafter. So make it burn always with the hardest flame.” 

So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person’s genius is confined to a very few hours.

Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance.

A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life: he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.

Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts.

Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.” 

I used to tease Joe Louis by reminding him that I was the greatest of all time. But Joe Louis was the greatest heavyweight fighter ever.

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.

The imagination and the senses cannot be gratified at the same time.

love life, engage in it, give it all you've got. love it with a passion, because life truly does give back, many times over, what you put into it

My entire stay there [high school] might have been time lost if it hadn't been for the unique personality of a brilliant teacher. Miss Kirwin was that rare educator who was in love with information. I will always believe that her love of teaching came not so much from her liking for students but from her desire to make sure that some of the things she knew would find repositories so that they could be shared again.

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities, no doubt crept in. Forget them as soon as you can, tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely, with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

I agreed a long time ago, I would not live at any cost. If I am moved or forced away from what I think is the right thing, I will not do it.

Language. I loved it. And for a long time I would think of myself, of my whole body, as an ear.

We don’t grow old. When we cease to grow, we become old.

At one time, you could sit on the Rue de la Paix in Paris or at the Habima Theater in Tel Aviv or in Medina and you could see a person come in, black, white, it didn't matter. You said, 'That's an American' because there's a readiness to smile and to talk to people.

While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God's creation.

Love life. Engage in it. Give it all you've got. Love it with a passion because life truly does give back, many times over, what you put into it.

No matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.

Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.

Each time a woman stands up for herself, without knowing it possibly, without claiming it, she stands up for all women.

At one time in my life, from the time I was seven until I was about 13, I didn't speak. I only spoke to my brother. The reason I didn't speak: I had been molested, and I told the name of the molester to my brother who told it to the family.